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# bony

«bony» in Mova's school dictionary: **very thin, so the bones can be seen or felt** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (bony, bonier, boniest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bony means very thin, so the bones can be seen or felt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bony/#m1)

2) Bony describes food, especially fish, that has a lot of small bones in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bony/#m2)

3) Bony means made of bone or like bone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bony/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons bony describes parts of the skeleton (the bony skull) and «bony fish» (fish with skeletons of bone, unlike sharks which have cartilage). In everyday life: a bony fish needs careful eating; a bony old horse is very thin. In stories witches have bony fingers.

### examples

- The witch pointed a long bony finger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bony/#x1)
- Be careful, this fish is very bony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bony/#x2)
- The stray cat was bony and hungry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bony/#x3)
- Your skull is a bony case that protects your brain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bony/#x4)
- My knees are bony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bony/#x5)
- Most fish are bony fish, but sharks are not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bony/#x6)
- Just above his ankles he clasped and unclasped his long bony fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bony/#x7)

### note

Spelled «bony» (no e) from «bone». Comparative: bonier, boniest. Synonyms: skinny, scrawny. Saying someone is bony can be rude.

### In the corpora

- [Glyptodonts were armadillo relatives as big as a small car, covered in a bony shell that protected them from hunters such as Smilodon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/12/)
- [Ankylosaurus was covered with bony plates in its skin and had a heavy club on its tail that could break a predator's leg.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/10/)
- [Imagine growing a pair of bony branches on your head every summer, fighting with them in autumn and dropping them in winter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/318-deer-antlers-that-fall-off-and-grow-again-red-deer-roe-deer-moose-muntjac-and-water-deer/0/)
- [A sturgeon has five rows of bony plates along its body and four whiskers under its snout to feel for food.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies/17/)
- [SuperCroc had a round bony bump at the tip of its snout, and nobody knows for sure what it was for.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bony» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bony/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.