Difference between Skeletal and Skeleton

What is the difference between Skeletal and Skeleton?

Skeletal as an adjective is of, or relating to the skeleton while Skeleton as a verb is to reduce to a skeleton; to skin

Skeletal

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: of, or relating to the skeleton haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt

Skeleton

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to reduce to a skeleton; to skinto minimize

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.A very thin person.(From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge).The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.

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