'Bony' definitions:

Definition of 'bony'

(from WordNet)
adjective
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: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
adjective
Composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: osseous, osteal, bony]
adjective
Having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" [syn: bony, boney] [ant: boneless]

Definition of 'Bony'

From: GCIDE
  • Bony \Bon"y\ (b[=o]"n[y^]), a.
  • 1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Having large or prominent bones. [1913 Webster]
  • Bony fish (Zool.), the menhaden.
  • Bony pike (Zool.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus). [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'bony'

From: Moby Thesaurus