(1) Their scaleless body is covered in hard bony plates.

(2) They were tough, bony , slightly burnt and very difficult to eat.

(3) The bony plates are absorbed within a few weeks after the fish settle to the bottom.

(4) She was bony and it was plain to see that she hadn't been eating regularly.

(5) They worry that they're too bony , awkward, lanky or boyish.

(6) Where other fish have scales, the sturgeon has an armour of bony plates with a few lines of these protruding scutes running down the length of the fish.

(7) Neither of these jawless fish has a bony skeleton, but most of the fossil groups listed on the cladogram had a fairly extensive covering of bony plates.

(8) Rags clung to a frail and bony body, one that did not look like it'd had any nourishment for quite some time.

(9) The grayling were somewhat bony , but they finished off the three fish without complaint and supplemented their meal with a handful of the dried berries.

(10) Maybe the Stegosaur loaned the seahorse its bony plate of armour.

(11) One tall, bony girl pushed forward through the people around me.

(12) As early vertebrates grew larger and developed bony scales or plates between their tissues and the water, they developed gills for taking up oxygen from the water.

(13) What's more, they were only scattered bony scales and plates.

(14) Their diet consists primarily of bony fishes and small sharks, including young bull sharks, but they have been known to feast on everything from seabirds to dogs.

(15) The carapace is closed behind the dorsal fin; bony plates surround the entire dorsal fin base.

(16) Steamed fish or bony kippers don't feature much in today's childhood diets.

(17) These whales force seawater through baleen plates (combs of bony material that form in the place of teeth) to filter out the tiny sea creatures.

(18) Like all placoderms, they lacked teeth, instead using the sharpened edges of a bony plate as a biting surface.

(19) For I wasn't even really there, just a bit of my mind was left in my bony body.

(20) The dome of the skull, for example, is made of bony plates, which must be immovable to protect the brain.