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The correct spelling is bones.
How to pronounce bones
/bəʊnz/
nounIPA: /bəʊnz/
Say it like: Bon-es
The correct spelling is bones. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. For example: "to bone stays"
Usage Examples
“to bone stays”
“boning rod”
“bone up”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- 2.Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
- 3.A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- 4.A bonefish
- 5.One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
verb
- 1.To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- 2.To fertilize with bone.
- 3.To put whalebone into.
- 4.To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- 5.(usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
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