Home › Words › E › epiossificationepiossificationepiossification means A bony extension (of a dinosaur's frill).EtymologyFrom epi- + ossification.nounA bony extension (of a dinosaur's frill).Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.exapophysis 61% match — A bony joint in the cervicals of some pterosaurs vs epiossification →apophysis 59% match — A natural outgrowth, swelling or enlargement, usually of an organism; a protuberance on a bone. vs epiossification →epoccipital 58% match — Any of a group of bones, of no obvious function, that lined the frills of ceratopsid dinosaurs vs epiossification →epijugal 57% match — Above the jugal bone vs epiossification →epipteric 56% match — Of or pertaining to supernumerary bones (Wormian bones) occasionally present in the pterion region of the human skull. vs epiossification →apophysate 56% match — Possessing an apophysis vs epiossification →ectostosis 55% match — A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage. vs epiossification →epidositic 55% match — Of or relating to the mineral epidosite. vs epiossification →