very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
"emaciated bony hands"
"a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
"eyes were haggard and cavernous"
"small pinched faces"
"kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
composed of or containing bone;
"osseous tissue"
having bones especially many or prominent bones;
"a bony shad fillet"
"her bony wrist"
"bony fish"
bony的用法和樣例:
例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
A high bony fin was cutting through the water toward him. 一個高高的骨狀魚鰭正劃破水面,向他追來。
That steak is bony and difficult to eat. 那種牛排多骨, 很不易吃。
The secretary is a tall and bony man. 秘書是個又高又瘦的男子。
He eats so little that he is bony. 他吃得太少, 瘦得只剩皮包骨。