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单词 bony
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bony

Dead branches emerge like bony fingers from the thick canopy of leaves.His bony fingers drummed more loudly.She turned back to the window, bony fingers drumming on the sill.She suddenly held up a small, bony finger and pointed across the room.But they are stiff, bony fish and the young birds cannot eat them easily.There are few in the world who would not recognise his bony, bearded face and gaunt frame.The man's eyes were full of terror as he scanned the scene around him from beneath his sagging eyelids and bony sockets.The insulin of the more advanced bony fish, reptiles, and mammals is a little cluster of six chains.They can get up to 10ft and can weigh a ton, which makes them the largest bony fish in the world.

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bony

British English: bony ADJECTIVE
Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands.
...an old man with a bony face and white hair.
  • American English: bony
  • Brazilian Portuguese: ossudo
  • Chinese: 瘦削的
  • European Spanish: huesudo
  • French: osseux
  • German: knochig
  • Italian: ossuto
  • Japanese: やせた
  • Korean: 뼈가 앙상한
  • European Portuguese: ossudo
  • Latin American Spanish: huesudo

Chinese translation of 'bony'

bony

(ˈbəunɪ)

adj

  1. [arm, face, fingers, person] 瘦的 (shòu de)
  2. (Anat) 骨的 (gǔ de)
  3. [fish] 多刺的 (duōcì de)
(adjective) 
Definition
thin
an old man with a bony face and white hair
Synonyms
thin
a tall, thin man with grey hair
lean
She watched the tall, lean figure step into the car.
skinny
He was quite a skinny little boy.
angular
He had an angular face with prominent cheekbones.
gaunt
Looking gaunt and tired, he denied there was anything to worry about.
skeletal
a hospital filled with skeletal children
haggard
He was pale and a bit haggard.
emaciated
We were shocked by the emaciated faces in the photo.
scrawny
a scrawny woman with dyed black hair
undernourished
cadaverous
a tall, thin man with a cadaverous face
rawboned
macilent (rare)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of angular
Definition
lean and bony
He had an angular face with prominent cheekbones.
Synonyms
skinny,
spare,
lean,
gaunt,
bony,
lanky,
scrawny,
lank,
rangy,
rawboned,
macilent (rare)
in the sense of cadaverous
Definition
pale, thin, and haggard
a tall, thin man with a cadaverous face
Synonyms
deathly,
pale,
ghastly,
wan,
blanched,
gaunt,
haggard,
emaciated,
bloodless,
pallid,
ashen,
hollow-eyed,
corpse-like,
like death warmed up (informal),
deathlike,
exsanguinous
in the sense of emaciated
Definition
extremely thin through illness or lack of food
We were shocked by the emaciated faces in the photo.
Synonyms
skeletal,
thin,
weak,
lean,
pinched,
skinny,
wasted,
gaunt,
bony,
haggard,
atrophied,
scrawny,
attenuate,
attenuated,
undernourished,
scraggy,
half-starved,
cadaverous,
macilent (rare)

Nearby words of
bony

  • bonhomie
  • bonny
  • bonus
  • bony
  • booby
  • book
  • book in

Synonyms of 'bony'

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