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bonier
如骨的,骨瘦如柴的(比較級)
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]