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BARE BONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bare bone mean?
• BARE BONE (noun)
The noun BARE BONE has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BARE BONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bone stripped of flesh
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("bare bone" is a kind of...):
bone; os (rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates)
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