bony

Adjective

• having bones especially many or prominent bones
  • a bony shad fillet
    
  • her bony wrist
    
  • bony fish
    

• composed of or containing bone
  • osseous tissue
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  boney , osseous , osteal , cadaverous , emaciated , gaunt , haggard , pinched , skeletal , wasted