boneyards
/ˈboʊniˌjɑrdz/
noun
- Places where old or broken vehicles, machines, or equipment are stored or left to decay (plural of boneyard).
- Aircraft boneyards in the southwestern United States are famous for their rows of retired planes.
- Many farmers keep boneyards on their land for broken machinery they might repair someday.
- The city has several boneyards where old buses are taken to be scrapped.
- Places where animal bones are found (plural of boneyard).
- Ancient boneyards can tell scientists a lot about what animals lived in an area.
- The lions' territory included boneyards where they left the remains of their prey.
- Paleontologists explored several boneyards in the badlands, searching for fossils.
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