bone
/bəʉn/noun
One of the hard, pale pieces that together form the skeleton of a person or animal.
Example sentences
- “He broke a bone in his wrist while skateboarding.”
- “An adult human body has 206 bones.”
- “The dog buried its bone under the apple tree.”
You break, fracture, or set a bone, and doctors check broken bones with an X-ray. Without 'a', bone can also mean the hard material itself, as in 'bone density'.