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    BONYNESS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)play

    Synonyms:

    boniness; bonyness; emaciation; gauntness; maceration

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("bonyness" is a kind of...):

    leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)

    Derivation:

    boney; bony (being very thin)

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