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Definition of Bone-covered
1. Adjective. (of animals) armored with bone.
Similar to: Armored, Armoured
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bone-covered
Literary usage of Bone-covered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book of Post-mortem Examinations and of Morbid Anatomy by Francis Delafield (1872)
"They then appear as flattened, concave bodies, composed of bone covered with
cartilage on one side. (3.) The growth of cartilage and bone begins in the ..."
2. The story of a boulder; or, Gleanings from the notebook of a field geologist by Archibald Geikie (1858)
"And thus we conclude that the site of Burdiehouse must have been a favourite
haunt of these bone- covered fishes; that the bulkier forms, armed with pointed ..."
3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"Microscopical examination: Sections of the denuded femur show the spicules of
cancellous bone covered with a layer of newly formed connective tissue, ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1824)
"... any more than those loose portions of bone covered by cartilage, which are
found so frequently in the knee, and sometimes in the hip and elbow joints. ..."
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