Definitions
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- adjective resembling bone.
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of
bone .
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- adjective resembling bone
Etymologies
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Examples
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He became an expert in bonelike structures built by layering materials with different properties, a technique called shape-deposition manufacturing.
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Tessa runs her hand along the rounded bonelike instrument.
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This was, she had ex - plained, merely an extension of her natural ability to harden her substance into bonelike or hornlike rigidity.
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It was a brute of a mutant bear with long bonelike spikes rising from its back.
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It was a brute of a mutant bear with long bonelike spikes rising from its back.
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I stuffed Eva's lace pillow inside, hiding the threads, the lace, and the bonelike bobbins that were swinging like tiny Poe pendulums.
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The sarcophagus clutched something in his hands, too, something small, bonelike, and curved.
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Ivory, horn, and tortoiseshell are all made of bonelike material that does best in conditions of moderate temperature and humidity around 50 percent relative humidity and around 68°F.
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Ivory, horn, and tortoiseshell are all made of bonelike material that does best in conditions of moderate temperature and humidity around 50 percent relative humidity and around 68°F.
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Lieberman looked at the growth patterns of a bonelike tissue called cementum, which is continuously deposited around the roots of mammalian teeth.
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