bony

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

• “emaciated bony hands”
• “a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys”
• “eyes were haggard and cavernous”
• “small pinched faces”
• “kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration”

composed of or containing bone

• “osseous tissue”

having bones especially many or prominent bones

• “a bony shad fillet”
• “her bony wrist”
• “bony fish”