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Definition of Bonelike
1. Adjective. Resembling bone. "A bonelike tumor"
Definition of Bonelike
1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of bone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonelike
Literary usage of Bonelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Skin and Venereal Diseases (1918)
"bonelike material formed the floor of some of these ulcers, in some a bonelike
fragment filled the ulcer to the level of the skin, and in some there was a ..."
2. A Textbook of Gynecology by Charles Alfred Lee Reed (1901)
"When sawn through, it was seen to consist of two portions, a soft pinkish central
portion, and a hard bonelike outer portion, 2 millimetres thick, ..."
3. The Story of the Fishes by George Robert Charles Herbert Pembroke, James Newton Baskett, George Henry Kingsley (1899)
"It seems more like a lot of little warts or pimples that first grew on the skin,
and afterward became bonelike—or rather toothlike—not horny. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Annual Conference by Indiana Science Teachers' Association, American Society of University Composers (1899)
"... the stomach with the bonelike parts in its walls; the intestine; the digestive
glands; the oesophagus; the reproductive glands; the " green glands " (in ..."
5. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1919)
"... but sometimes 2^ cm-> yellowish, translucent, bonelike, sometimes darker at
base; fruits decidedly acid, light red without with yellowish green rind and ..."
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