bony in WordNet English dictionary

1. having bones especially many or prominent bones
   "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"
   bony  boney 
   
2. composed of or containing bone
   "osseous tissue"
   osseous  osteal  bony 
   
3. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
   "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
   bony  cadaverous  emaciated  gaunt  haggard  pinched  skeletal  wasted