Home › Words › E › epijugalepijugalepijugal means above the jugal bone.EtymologyFrom epi- + jugal.adjAbove the jugal bonenounThe armoured cheek-plate of dinosaurs such as triceratopsDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.caputegulum 62% match — Any of a series of flat bones that cover the skull bones of ankylosaurs vs epijugal →retrojugal 61% match — Behind the jugal bone vs epijugal →stegognathous 57% match — Having a jaw composed of imbricated plates. vs epijugal →pseudoacromion 57% match — A lateral scapular ridge on nodosaurid ankylosaurs vs epijugal →epoccipital 57% match — Any of a group of bones, of no obvious function, that lined the frills of ceratopsid dinosaurs vs epijugal →epiossification 57% match — A bony extension (of a dinosaur's frill). vs epijugal →pachyrostran 57% match — Any ceratopsid dinosaur of the clade Pachyrostra vs epijugal →odontognathous 57% match — Having toothlike ridges on the jaw vs epijugal →