bonenoun [ C or U ]
uk/bəʊn/us/boʊn/B1 any of the hard parts inside a human or animal that make up its frame:
The child was so thin that you could see her bones.
human/animal bones
B1 the bone in meat or fish:
There's still a lot of meat left on the bone - shall I slice some off for you?
I don't like fish because I hate the bones.
More examples
- A fish bone got stuck in my throat.
- He's broken a bone in his wrist.
- Doctors have replaced the top of his hip bone with a metal sphere.
- The soldiers discovered a pile of human skulls and bones.
- Doctors inserted a metal pin in his leg to hold the bones together.
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Substances & structures in the body
- abductor
- accessorius
- adductor
- agonist
- amyloid
- atheroma
- caecum
- grey matter
- gyrus
- hallucis
- hilum
- hilus
- lymph vessel
- peptic
- periosteum
- peritoneal
- peritoneum
- phosphatase
- vitreous humour
- xiphoid
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The skin, hair & bone of non-human animals
Idiom(s)
bone dry
bone idle
a bone of contention
have a bone to pick with sb
make no bones about sth
to the bone
boneverb
uk/bəʊn/us/boʊn/bone verb (SEX)
[ I or T ] offensive to have sex with someone
bone verb (FOOD)
[ T ] to take the bones out of something:
The chef bones the fish before grilling it.
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Preparing animals & fish for cooking
- boneless
- butcher
- butchery
- ceviche
- clean
- disembowel
- filet
- fillet
- gut
- joint
- pluck
- render
- render sth down
- rendering
- shuck
- skewer
- skin
- skinless
- tenderize
- truss
Phrasal verb(s)
bone up