Thesaurus: skeleton

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1. n. The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
2. n. The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
3. n. A very thin or lean person.
4. n. The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
5. n. The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
6. a. Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.
7. n. something reduced to its minimal form
8. n. a scandal that is kept secret
9. n. the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
10. n. the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape