Bony definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary BO'NY, a. [from bone ... very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys ... life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] 2: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: osseous, osteal, bony] 3: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" [syn: bony, boney] [ant: boneless] Merriam ...
bony fish definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: any ... comprising fishes (as sturgeons, eels, mackerels, and sunfish) with a bony rather than a cartilaginous skeleton — called also teleost — compare cartilaginous ... sac to give buoyancy), gill covers over the gill chamber, bony platelike scales, a skull with sutures, and external fertilization of eggs. Bony fishes occur in all freshwater and ocean environments. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Bony Bon"y, a. 1. Consisting of bone, or of bones ... bones; pertaining to bones. 2. Having large or prominent bones. Bony fish (Zo["o]l.), the menhaden. Bony pike (Zo[" ...
Bony pike definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Bony Bon"y, a. 1. Consisting of bone, or of bones ... bones; pertaining to bones. 2. Having large or prominent bones. Bony fish (Zo["o]l.), the menhaden. Bony pike (Zo["o]l.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).
bony labyrinth definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: cavity ... of the temporal bone that contains the membranous labyrinth [syn: bony labyrinth, osseous labyrinth]
... fins, and are oviparous. Some of them have the skeleton bony, and others cartilaginous. Most of the former have the opening ... numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony fishes and usually the cartilaginous and jawless fishes and that ... cartilaginous sharks, skates, and rays to the abundant and diverse bony fishes. Species range in length from 0.4 in. to ... Most species have paired fins and skin covered with either bony or toothlike scales. Fish generally respire through gills. Most bony fishes have a swim bladder, a gas-filled organ used ... water. See Pisces. Note: The true fishes include the Teleostei (bony fishes), Ganoidei, Dipnoi, and Elasmobranchii or Selachians (sharks and ...
... the elbow; at first like gristle, but afterwards hard and bony. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a swelling of ... likened to a lump) Date: 15th century swelling; especially a bony enlargement of the hock of a horse associated with strain ... a disease of a horse's hock with a hard bony tumour or excrescence. Phrases and idioms: blood (or bog) spavin ... effusion of lymph or fluid. bone spavin a deposit of bony substance uniting the bones. Derivatives: spavined adj. Etymology: ME f ... See Sparrow.] (Far.) A disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation ... resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed. --Harbaugh. Bog spavin, a soft ...
... teeth, nor dog-teeth; it is covered with a hard, bony shell, divided into movable belts, except on the forehead, shoulders ... the body and head encased in an armor of small bony plates Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (pl. -os) any nocturnal insect ... with large claws for digging and a body covered in bony plates, often rolling itself into a ball when threatened. Etymology ... armar to arm. So called from being armed with a bony shell.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) Any edentate animal if the ... and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad ... is a small animal whose body is covered with large bony scales and which rolls itself into a ball when ...
... Dictionary OS'SEOUS, a. [L. osseus, from os, a bone.] Bony; resembling bone. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: osseous, osteal, bony] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Latin osseus, from oss-, os ... bone; akin to Greek osteon bone, Sanskrit asthi Date: 1682 bony 1 Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. 1 consisting of bone. 2 having a bony skeleton. 3 ossified. Etymology: L osseus f. os ossis bone ... Oyster.] Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Bony.
... adj 1: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" [syn: bony, boney] [ant: boneless] 2: being very thin; "a child with ... boney, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy] Merriam Webster's adjective see bony
... of fish WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates Merriam Webster's I ... the skeleton of the head of a vertebrate forming a bony or cartilaginous case that encloses and protects the brain and ... See also craniosynostosis, fontanel. Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 the bony case of the brain of a vertebrate. 2 a the ... and the cranium is made up, wholly or partially, of bony plates arranged in three segments, the frontal, parietal, and occipital ... Crossbones. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (skulls) Your skull is the bony part of your head which encloses your brain. Her husband ...
... numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates [syn: boxfish, trunkfish] Merriam Webster's noun Date: circa 1804 any of numerous small often bright colored bony fishes (family Ostraciidae) of tropical seas with the body and head enclosed in a bony carapace Webster's 1913 Dictionary Trunkfish Trunk"fish`, n. (Zo ... an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish ...
... bone; to change from soft matter into a substance of bony hardness. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: become bony; "The tissue ossified" 2: make rigid and set into a ... syn: rigidify, ossify, petrify] 3: cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue" Merriam Webster's verb (-fied ... bone; to change from a soft tissue to a hard bony tissue. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (ossifies, ossifying, ossified) If an ...
... 1828 Dictionary TOOTH, n. plu. teeth. [L. dens.] 1. A bony substance growing out of the jaws of animals, and serving ... Date: before 12th century 1. a. one of the hard bony appendages that are borne on the jaws or in many ... n. (pl. teeth) 1 each of a set of hard bony enamel-coated structures in the jaws of most vertebrates, used ... of a fork, Tusk. ] 1. (Anat.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other ...