- 1(technology) connected with the skeleton of a person or an animal Skeletal remains of the earliest dinosaurs are rare.
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- 2looking like a skeleton skeletal figures dressed in rags She stretched out a skeletal hand.
- 3that exists only in a basic form, as an outline He has written only a skeletal plot for the book so far.
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