Bones
Bones noun - A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
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Figure
Figure noun - A character used to represent a mathematical value.
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After Season 4, he begins to see Booth as a father figure and Bones as something like a sister.
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Plus, there's when Bones and Hodgins are buried alive in "Aliens in a Spaceship" and have to figure out and tell the others where they are.
Source: Series / Bones - Taken to its logical extreme in 2001: A Space Odyssey: The dawn of man begins when apes figure out how to use bones as weapons and kill creatures.
Source: A Real Man Is a Killer
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