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bone
/bəʉn/
noun
A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
verb
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
To fertilize with bone.
To put whalebone into.
"to bone stays"
adjective
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
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