hyperossified

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adjective

Ossified to an abnormal extent.

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Meanings

adjectivehyperossified (comparative more hyperossified, superlative most hyperossified)

comparative more hyperossified · superlative most hyperossified

  1. Ossified to an abnormal extent.

    This applies especially to the massive, hyperossified skull in which the maxilla is sutured posteriorly with the quadratojugal-quadrate, and the supratemporal opening is much reduced in size.

    2015 October 1, “An Extremely Peramorphic Newt (Urodela: Salamandridae: Pleurodelini) from the Latest Oligocene of Germany, and a New Phylogenetic Analysis of Extant and Extinct Salamandrids”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From hyper- + ossified.

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