bone

About 45.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2. noun Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
3. noun A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
4. noun A bonefish.
5. noun One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
6. noun One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
7. noun Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
8. noun The framework of anything.

Similar words

osseous tissue bony pearl ivory debone boney off-white cram get up swot

Often followed by

marrow and is of in joint formation loss or

Word family

Bone Muirhead Bone Sir Muirhead Bone a bone to pick bone in his body boned boneless bones boning