skeleton
骨架,骨骼,骨架子,骨头
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Definitions
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- : Anatomy, Zoology. the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of the body.
- : any of various structures forming a rigid framework in an invertebrate.
- : an emaciated person or animal.
- : a supporting framework, as of a leaf, building, or ship.
- : an outline, as of a literary work: the skeleton of the plot.
- : something reduced to its essential parts.
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- : of or relating to a skeleton.
- : like or being a mere framework; reduced to the essential or minimal parts or numbers: a skeleton staff.
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Examples
Once the system had these data, it could track that person’s skeleton.
When his team examined the fossilized embryos, they noticed egg-shaped halos around the skeletons.
It’s all based on coral — small marine animals that build themselves stony skeletons, often on top of older corals.
That light — including its blue wavelengths — can enter and bounce around inside the corals’ skeleton.
As they crawl over the reef, the starfish liquefy polyps with digestive enzymes, sponging up the nutrients and leaving behind a coral skeleton.
That meant the talent that DJ Brinsely hired that night performed for a skeleton audience.
The identity of the skeleton remains the big question, and answers may not be forthcoming anytime soon.
Enriqueta Romero put a skeleton on the sidewalk, and helped give us Santa Muerte.
Day of the Dead parades follow a cross-cultural flow, embellishing Halloween stylizations of the dancing skeleton.
Posada used the skeleton as a way of talking about politics, commenting on life.
The sun was printing over the floor the shadow skeleton of the juniper-tree by the westerly window.
The mutilated skeleton of a girl was found, which had apparently been in that place for considerably over a hundred years.