Katakana rendering of 'bone'. In ordinary Japanese for an animal or human bone, 骨 is the normal word; ボーン is more natural in English-style compounds, product names, and descriptions such as ボーン型.
I bought a bone-shaped toy for the dog.
Bone broth was listed on the menu.
Bourne shell
Computing term, usually understood in the compound ボーンシェル or Bourne shell; it refers to the Unix shell rather than to a physical bone.
The old script is written to run in the Bourne shell.
emotional backbone; support; core strength · network backbone
heliborne
hipbone · hip-huggers; hipsters
bonehead play; stupid mistake
bone china
The katakana spelling reflects foreign-word and proper-name usage. No explicit language-of-origin information is specified, so the exact borrowing history is not specified here.