Composed of, containing, or resembling bone; bony. 骨状的,多骨的由骨组成的、含骨的或象骨的;多骨的
The armadillo has a protective shell of bony plates. 犰狳有角质鳞片的护甲.
bony bonier, boniest
[ adj ]
composed of or containing bone
<adj.pert> osseous tissue
having bones especially many or prominent bones
<adj.all> a bony shad fillet her bony wrist bony fish
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
<adj.all> 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
Bony \Bon"y\, a. 1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
2. Having large or prominent bones.
{Bony fish} (Zo["o]l.), the menhaden.
{Bony pike} (Zo["o]l.), the gar pike ({Lepidosteus}).
Every day 12-year-old Shashi Bushan Das starts out at dawn with a burlap sack over his bony shoulder.
Their long, bony hands have only four digits.
Break a tooth on a bony chicken "filet" sandwich and the law in many states requires you to grin and bear it.
The two ran in unison the rest of the way, with Padilla thrusting his bony chest into the tape a whit before the African.