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bony: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"; 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"

ossified collapse: changed into bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter; "cartilages ossified with age"

angular collapse: having angles or an angular shape; measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle; "angular momentum"

gangling collapse: tall and thin; tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man"

skinny collapse: confidential information about a topic or person; "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"; of or relating to or resembling skin

skeletal collapse: of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"

stapes collapse: the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea

stirrup collapse: support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go

scrawny collapse: inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

anvil collapse: a heavy block of iron or steel on which hot metals are shaped by hammering

gawky collapse: lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"

scraggy collapse: being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

vestibule collapse: any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity (as of the ear or vagina)

lug collapse: a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something; ancient Celtic god; carry with difficulty; "You'll have to lug this suitcase"

horny collapse: having horns or hornlike projections; "horny coral"; "horny (or horned) frog"

flinty collapse: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"; containing flint

bone collapse: a shade of white the color of bleached bones; rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates; the porous calcified substance from which bones are made; consisting of or made up of bone; "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body"; remove the bones from; "bone the turkey before roasting it"

meager collapse: deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

lobe collapse: a rounded projection that is part of a larger structure; (anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part; "ear lobe"; the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern; (botany) a part into which a leaf is divided

dense collapse: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"; having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead"; hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"; permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"

hammer collapse: the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway"; a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking; a power tool for drilling rocks; a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate; the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled; a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw; beat with or as if with a hammer; "hammer the metal flat"

rocky collapse: full of hardship or trials; "the rocky road to success"; "they were having a rough time"; abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches"; liable to rock; "on high rocky heels"

resistant collapse: impervious to being affected; "resistant to the effects of heat"; "resistant to persuasion"

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