Bonelike

Origin

bone + -like

Full definition of bonelike

Adjective

1. Resembling or characteristic of bone.
• 2009, September 13, Jonathan Lethem, Poet of Desolate Landscapes, To the south, as Halliday followed the winding course of the river, the darkness gave way to the deep indigo tracts of the irrigation project, the lines of canals forming an exquisite bonelike gridwork.”