Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Eating or feeding on bones.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Feeding on bones; eating bones.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Bone eating, of an animal given to chewing on bones.

Etymologies

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oss (bone) + -vore (eating) + -ous

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