кокалест adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)
кокалест adj (having prominent bones)
костен adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)

Catalan

1 entries

ossi adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)

Czech

4 entries

kost a kůže adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)
kostnatý adj (full of bones)
kostnatý adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)
kostnatý adj (having prominent bones)

Dutch

4 entries

benig adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)
benig adj (full of bones)
benig adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)
mager adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)

Finnish

4 entries

luinen adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)
luinen adj (full of bones)
luiseva adj (full of bones)
luiseva adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)

French

1 entries

osseux adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)

Galician

4 entries

osudo adj (full of bones)
osudo adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)
osudo adj (having prominent bones)
óseo adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)

German

4 entries

grätig adj (full of bones)
knochig adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)
knochig adj (having prominent bones)
knöchern adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)

Greek

1 entries

οστεώδης adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)

Hungarian

1 entries

csontos adj (full of bones)

Ido

1 entries

ostala adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)

Indonesian

2 entries

bertulang adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)
kurus adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)

Italian

2 entries

ossuto adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)
stecchino adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)

Latin

1 entries

osseus adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)

Māori

1 entries

(w)hīroki adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

ضعیف adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)

Portuguese

3 entries

ossudo adj (full of bones)
ossudo adj (having prominent bones)
ósseo adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)

Romanian

2 entries

osos adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)
osos adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)

Russian

4 entries

ко́стный adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)
кости́стый adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)
кости́стый adj (full of bones)
костля́вый adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)

Spanish

3 entries

huesudo adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)
huesudo adj (with little flesh; skinny, thin)
huesudo adj (having prominent bones)

Volapük

1 entries

fitabomagik adj (full of bones)

Welsh

1 entries

esgyrnog adj (resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone)

Sample sentences

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This fish is bony and it is not easy to bone it.

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I ruin everything I get my bony hands on.

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I don't like bony fish.

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As its name suggests, the leatherback is the only sea turtle that doesn't have a hard bony shell.

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