bony (
http://definr.com/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]