bony

a bony fillet of fish.

Bony models and gaudery.

That steak is bony and difficult to eat.

the bony face of a cadaver

the bony plates that protect turtles and tortoises.

he held up his bony fingers.

ribby, bony-rumped, horned cattle.

endocarp hard, bony, surface usually lacunose.

bony fish: the vast majority of living fish belong here.

the fused bony plates protect the tortoise's soft parts.

the old man's thin, bony shanks showed through his trousers.

sclerite Bony upper layer lying on the fibrillary plate of a teleost scale.

a large bony plate in the anterior third of the space between the lower jaws, in the bowfin.

Dystopy bone fracture should be replaced and fixed in time to prevent bony deformity.

operculum Bony gill cover; comprised of four bones: opercle, preopercle, interopercle and subopercle.

lecithotrophic larva A planktonic-dispersing larva that lives off yolk supplied via the egg, as in most bony fish.

Orbital meningocele is a rare congenital anomaly with cystic herniation of meninges caused by a bony defect of the cranio-orbital bone.

osteocranium The bony part of the skull, becoming more developed as the cartilaginous elements ossify during development or evolution.