bony
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"They're a heavy, bony fish, so it must be some severe ramming," Wellard said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Throughout evolutionary history, the skin’s ability to form bony tissue has resurfaced again and again.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 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
The little thing was bony under its fur, but otherwise it seemed perfectly normal.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
His dad's a bigger, bonier, redder-eyed version of his son.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
She came here accompanied by a Mrs. Brian, a relative of hers, who is the dryest, boniest person you can imagine, but at the same time the slyest woman I have ever seen.
From The Clique of Gold by Émile Gaboriau
But the boniest flow'r on the banks of the Devon Was once a sweet bud on the braes of the Ayr.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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
