skeleton
The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
Other meanings
An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
“She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween.”
A very thin person.
“She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton.”
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This definition is adapted from “skeleton” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.