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BONELESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does boneless mean?
• BONELESS (adjective)
The adjective BONELESS has 1 sense:
1. being without a bone or bones
Familiarity information: BONELESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being without a bone or bones
Context example:
jellyfish are boneless
Similar:
boned; deboned (having had the bones removed)
Antonym:
bony (having bones especially many or prominent bones)
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