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skeleton

noun as in structure of bones in animate being or supports in an object

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Once the system had these data, it could track that person’s skeleton.

When his team examined the fossilized embryos, they noticed egg-shaped halos around the skeletons.

It’s all based on coral — small marine animals that build themselves stony skeletons, often on top of older corals.

That light — including its blue wavelengths — can enter and bounce around inside the corals’ skeleton.

As they crawl over the reef, the starfish liquefy polyps with digestive enzymes, sponging up the nutrients and leaving behind a coral skeleton.

That meant the talent that DJ Brinsely hired that night performed for a skeleton audience.

The identity of the skeleton remains the big question, and answers may not be forthcoming anytime soon.

Enriqueta Romero put a skeleton on the sidewalk, and helped give us Santa Muerte.

Day of the Dead parades follow a cross-cultural flow, embellishing Halloween stylizations of the dancing skeleton.

Posada used the skeleton as a way of talking about politics, commenting on life.

The sun was printing over the floor the shadow skeleton of the juniper-tree by the westerly window.

The mutilated skeleton of a girl was found, which had apparently been in that place for considerably over a hundred years.

A well preserved natural skeleton of this animal was brought home and deposited in the British Museum.

The veriest tyro in natural history would see that at the first glance of the massive skeleton.

The chestnuts are stripped bare already and lift their black skeleton arms in the air.

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On this page you'll find 57 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to skeleton, such as: frame, scaffolding, bones, cage, design, and draft.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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