bony
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Dermal armor refers to hard, bony plates embedded within the skin.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
"They're a heavy, bony fish, so it must be some severe ramming," Wellard said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Fishermen and chefs report that Asian carp are actually delicious, though they are so bony they don’t make good filets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
The holiday’s corpulent, white-bearded dandy arrived even later, his schmaltzy persona skimmed from bony St. Nicholas between Reconstruction and 1931, when Coca-Cola debuted its iconic, brandy-flushed Santa Claus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025
Madame Semele hooted and hugged herself, swaying back and forth, bony fingers clutching her sides.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
The introductory news release dubbed them simply “Beyond Fried Chicken,” and the accompanying photo depicted the not-nuggets in a paper bucket reminiscent of the receptacles that usually house the chain’s bonier offerings.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022
No, really: Unlike bonier fish, Greenland sharks lack distinctive growth rings for researchers to count like those in a tree.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2016
As modern-day sharks have fully cartilage skeletons, the fossil suggests they evolved from an earlier, bonier fish, transforming to a cartilage skeleton to make them lighter, more nimble and quicker through the water.
From The Guardian ● May 28, 2015
Oedipus' puppet, blinded and bonier than ever, came back in time to disintegrate before the final curtain.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a good color of nail polish, and Margo had nice fingers, thinner and bonier than the rest of her, which was all curves and soft edges.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
Any savvy politician knows to grab the boniest chunk of raccoon on the table since it will make for the best photo and have the least amount of meat.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2014
“The longest, boniest thing the nurses had ever seen.”
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Young Peggy blooms our boniest lass, Her blush is like the morning, The rosy dawn, the springing grass, With early gems adorning.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
He was highly pleased, for decidedly the boniest and most scraggy of the fowls had been selected, and nothing could be more delicious than this stew.
From A Very Naughty Girl by L. T. Meade
Pride of profession is one of the boniest bones in existence, if not the boniest.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
