bony

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

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”Synonyms: cadaverous emaciated gaunt haggard pinched skeletal wasted
composed of or containing bone“osseous tissue”Synonyms: osseous osteal
having bones especially many or prominent bones“a bony shad fillet”“her bony wrist”“bony fish”Synonyms: boney

Bony \Bon"y\ (b[=o]"n[y^]), a.

1.Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones. [1913 Webster]

2.Having large or prominent bones. [1913 Webster]

Bony fish (Zool.), the menhaden.

Bony pike (Zool.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus). [1913 Webster]