Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Skeletonize
Skel′e·ton·ize (·īz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skeletonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Skeletonizing.] To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Skel′e·ton·ize (·īz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skeletonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Skeletonizing.] To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.