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adj. - (of animals) armored with skeletal pieces.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Dougal stopped and rubbed the stubble on his chin as he scanned the bone-covered passage before him.
  • And within, Astrid faces other, unexpected threats: from crumbling, bone-covered walls that vibrate with a terrible power to the hidden agendas of her fellow hunters to...
  • There is bone furniture, a dog made of bone and a bone-covered counter top.
  • After a lunch stop on a bone-covered gravel beach, we made the three-kilometre crossing to Carmen Island, the largest island in the park and our base for the night.
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