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"
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用作形容词 (adj.)
A high bony fin was cutting through the water toward him. 一个高高的骨状鱼鳍正划破水面,向他追来。
That steak is bony and difficult to eat. 那种牛排多骨, 很不易吃。
The secretary is a tall and bony man. 秘书是个又高又瘦的男子。
He eats so little that he is bony. 他吃得太少, 瘦得只剩皮包骨。