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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bony \Bon"y\ (b[=o]"n[y^]), a.
     1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining
        to bones.
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     2. Having large or prominent bones.


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     {Bony fish} (Zool.), the menhaden.
  
     {Bony pike} (Zool.), the gar pike ({Lepidosteus}).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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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