OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11230

skeleton

/ˈskɛlɪtn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
esqueleto • osamenta • osatura
The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
At the foot of a pretty big pine, and involved in a green creeper, which had even partly lifted some of the smaller bones, a human skeleton lay, with a few shreds of clothing, on t…
esqueleto
A very thin person.
She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton.
estructura
A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.