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English Dictionary: skeletal by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skeletal
adj
  1. of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles"
  2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
    Synonym(s): bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Skeletal \Skel"e*tal\, a.
      Pertaining to the skeleton.
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