Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
bony, boney
(adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones; “a bony shad fillet”; “her bony wrist”; “bony fish”
scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
(adjective) being very thin; “a child with skinny freckled legs”; “a long scrawny neck”; “pale bony hands”
osseous, osteal, bony
(adjective) composed of or containing bone; “osseous tissue”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
boniest
superlative form of bony: most bony
• Benoist, Benoits, ebonist, nose bit, sit bone, tobines
Source: Wiktionary
Bon"y, a.
1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
2. Having large or prominent bones. Bony fish (Zoöl.), the menhaden.
– Bony pike (Zoöl.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.