bony
boh nee
- s very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
emaciated bony hands - a composed of or containing bone
- a having bones especially many or prominent bones
a bony shad fillet
her bony wrist
bony fish
- These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses.
- For a moment, Tip stays where she is, her childlike hands clasped in front, bony elbows between her knees.
- Ever since the 1700s, when doctors discovered bony material in heart vessels, physicians have known that some blood-vessel cells can morph into bony tissue.