skeletal
adj.
pertaining to the skeleton; resembling a skeleton; forming a skeleton; extremely thin
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Skeletal
skeletal
Adjective
1. of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
(pertainym) skeletal system, skeleton, frame, systema skeletale
2. 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"
(synonym) bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted
(similar) thin, lean
Skeletal
(a.)
Pertaining to the skeleton.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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