bone

noun
bōn

A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

Other meanings

Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

A kind of

connective tissue

Kinds of bone

bare bone
wrist bone
cartilage bone
coccyx
dentine
hyoid
membrane bone
nasal

Example sentences

“How do I know if I've broken a bone?”
Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
“The infection has reached the bone.”
Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0
“Throw me a bone.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Old English "bān" (bone, tusk; the bone of a limb).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “bone” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.