Ossify (verb)
os-if-ai
Turn into bone or bony tissue.
Early 18th century: from French ossifier, from Latin os, oss- ‘bone’.
Example sentences
“Due to the trauma, that cartilage may ossify.”
Favonian (adj) fav-oh-nee-un Of or relating to the west wind./ Mild or favorable; propitious. 1650–60; Latin Favōniānus. See Favonius, -an. foehn (more…)
