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Bare-bones
Answer for the clue "Bare-bones ", 8 letters:
skeletal
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Word definitions for skeletal in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1849, from skeleton + -al (1). Related: Skeletally .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 of, or relating to the skeleton 2 haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN muscle ▪ The inflammatory process was seen to extend into adjacent skeletal muscle and was consistent with a diagnosis of Riedel's thyroiditis. ▪ Consideration is given first to the anatomic arrangement of the nervous ...
Usage examples of skeletal.
The first set consists of reports of anomalously old artifacts and human skeletal remains, most of which were discovered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Kern craned his head to see Daile and Miltiades to his left, struggling in vain against the skeletal bonds.
The American Academy of Pediatrics generally recommends that doxycycline not be used in children under nine years old because the drug may retard skeletal growth in infants and cause discolored teeth in infants and children.
Enlarged hearts, high-altitude edemas, skeletal dysplasia, acute leukemia, sterility, skin cancer.
Tall, skeletal, wreathed in glimmering rags, the ectoplasm emerged from the tunnel mouth.
Five points of scarlet flame flickered at the ends of his fingers, turning his flesh translucent, so that the fine bones were made visible, a skeletal hand enwreathed in fire.
It came to an easy stop in front of the skeletal remains of the main house, now a broken erector set of burned timbers and piles of wet, dirty ash.
The thing had gangling arms and hands with ebony talons, a skeletal torso with naked female breasts, coarse black hair that framed smoldering scarlet eyes.
Lord Gorrel repeated it several times, rolling it between his skeletal jaws.
There is much promise of deciphering the skeletal developments of primates through Homeobox genes.
Tom felt was connected to some skeletal remains found in Nota County last spring.
The deciduous trees were always skeletal, the pines palsied, the willows wind-whipped and nubbly, the grass dun and crunchy underfoot, the water-rats always seeing the big drainage-picture first and gliding like night to the cement sides to flee.
A hand stretched out toward him, insubstantial as a skeletal leaf, and the chill increased, numbing his whole body.
It turned out to be true to its name--a wooden walkway winding through a desolate forest of skeletal ohia trees, the native Hawaiian trees that provided the magical lehua blossoms she had read about.
The spindly gray ohia trees along the sides of the road had not seemed so leering or so menacing before, not even when she saw them as only skeletal remains on Devastation Trail.