skeletal
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Skeletal replicas of the terrifying mosasaur, a Komodo Dragon relative with a six-foot jaw; the saber-toothed salmon; and other extinct species greet visitors in the museum’s entrance hall.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2025
Skeletal remains, they argue, were a hot commodity at the beginning of the 19th century: Phosphorus was needed to produce fertilizer, whereas bone char was—bizarrely—a critical part of the process for refining sugar beets.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 4, 2024
Skeletal editing is a method used by chemists to replace atoms within a ring system.
From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2024
Skeletal remains have been been found at the home of missing woman Tina Satchwell in County Cork.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2023
Skeletal birds with glowing red eyes blinked at her from the branches above; animals or...something made weird noises in the darkness around her.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Vocabulary lists containing skeletal
STAAR Biology: Biological Processes and Systems
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Organisms and Environments 5: Human Systems
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Novel Study: Inside Out & Back Again, Unpack and Repack–1976: The Year of the Dragon
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