Usually means: Structural framework supporting vertebrate bodies.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. bones: Merriam-Webster
  2. bones: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bones: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bones: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bone's, Bones, bone's, bones: Wordnik
  6. bones: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Bones, bones: Wiktionary
  8. bones: Dictionary.com
  9. bones: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. BONES (studio), BONES, Bones (Editors song), Bones (Equinox song), Bones (Galantis song), Bones (Michael Kiwanuka song), Bones (Son Lux album), Bones (TV Series), Bones (TV series), Bones (The Killers song), Bones (Young Guns album), Bones (Young Guns song), Bones (band), Bones (bull), Bones (disambiguation), Bones (film), Bones (instrument), Bones (nickname), Bones (rapper), Bones (season Bones+++(season+++1)), Bones (season 2), Bones (season 3), Bones (season 4), Bones (season 5), Bones (season 6), Bones (season 7), Bones (season 8), Bones (season 9), Bones (soundtrack), Bones (studio), Bones (tv series), Bones, The Bones (song), The Bones: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. bones: Rhymezone
  12. Bones, Bones: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  13. bones: FreeDictionary.org
  14. bones: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Bones: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. bones: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bones: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. bones: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bones: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. bones: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BONES: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. bones: Idioms

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bones (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. bones, bones, bones: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Bones: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. Bones: A Seattle Lexicon
  6. Bones, the bones: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Bones)

▸ noun:  A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs.
▸ noun:  A pair of dice for gambling.
▸ noun:  (informal) Synonym of fist bump.
▸ noun:  (plural only) The framework or foundation of something.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A surgeon.

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maraca, castanets, clappers, finger cymbals, skeletons, shinbone, skeletal, bony, femur, skull, more...

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flesh, skin, muscles, organs, fat

Types:
femur, humerus, skull, ribs, vertebrae, clavicle, scapula, tibia, fibula, more...

Phrases:
long bones, bare bones, dry bones, nasal bones, facial bones, more...

Adjectives:
long, human, dry, small, nasal, old, broken, bare, facial, cranial, high

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Similar:
maraca, castanets, clappers, finger cymbals, skeletons, shinbone, skeletal, bony, femur, skull, more...

Opposite:
flesh, skin, muscles, organs, fat

Types:
femur, humerus, skull, ribs, vertebrae, clavicle, scapula, tibia, fibula, more...

Phrases:
long bones, bare bones, dry bones, nasal bones, facial bones, Carpal bones, cheek bones, leg bones, cranial bones, pelvic bones, skull bones, temporal bones, parietal bones, Metatarsal bones, tarsal bones, more...

Adjectives:
long, human, dry, small, nasal, old, broken, bare, facial, cranial, high

Colors:
    bone,     ivory,     cream,     beige,     off-white, more...



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