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Bone

/bəʉn/

A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

📖 Definitions of "Bone"

noun
  1. 1

    A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

  2. 2

    Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

  3. 3

    A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

  4. 4

    A bonefish

verb
  1. 1

    To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

  2. 2

    To fertilize with bone.

  3. 3

    To put whalebone into.

    "to bone stays"

  4. 4

    To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

    "boning rod"

adjective
  1. 1

    Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

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