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]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

67 Moby Thesaurus words for "bony": angular, bone, cement, cemental, concrete, corneous, dense, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, flintlike, flinty, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, horny, iron-hard, ironlike, lank, lanky, lapideous, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, meager, obdurate, osseous, ossicular, ossiferous, ossified, osteal, rawboned, resistant, resistive, rocklike, rocky, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, solid, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, tough, twiggy, undersized, underweight

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bony adj
1: 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" [syn: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
2: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: osseous, osteal]
3: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist" [syn: boney] [ant: boneless] [also: boniest, bonier]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

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).

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)