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osseous

adjective

  1. made of or pertaining to bone
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɒsi.əs/

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin osseus (“bony, (attributive) bone”), from os (“bone”) + -eus.

  1. Of, relating to, or made of bone; bony.

    One of Hecker's successors at the honest task of baking was Peter M. Baldwin, known to all as the 'General' — a tall, spare, osseous sort of man, built on the large Western plan, and thought to resemble Andrew Jackson.

    It could be some kind of inception based advertising campaign… make people feel vulnerable so that they want to summon some osseous defenders?