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Molar

adjective
1.
Of or pertaining to the grinding teeth in the back of a mammal's mouth.
2.
Designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution.
3.
Containing one mole of a substance.
4.
Pertaining to large units of behavior.  Antonym: molecular.
noun
1.
Grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars.  Synonym: grinder.



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"Molar" Quotes from Famous Books



... grinding faces of an upper and of a lower molar of the same side are applied together, it will be seen that the apposed ridges are nowhere parallel, but that they frequently cross; and that thus, in the act of mastication, a hard surface in the one is constantly applied to a soft surface in the ...
— American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology • Tomas Henry Huxley
... the head are the great width and elongation of the face, the depth of the molar region, the branches of the lower jaw being very deep and extending far backward, and the comparative smallness of the cranial portion; the eyes are very large, and said to be like those of the Enche-eko, a bright hazel; nose ...
— A Book of Natural History - Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. • Various
... wasn't the child's molar but the child's funds that I was concerned with. "You will recollect that I compensated him for the loss of it with a shilling. It makes it all the more poignant that it was my last shilling. I put it into his money-box, the key of which ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 • Various
... wuz my backbone come uncoupled," said the farmer. Brad grabbed him by the left leg and the struggling group went down in a heap, but the doctor came up with a gleam of triumph on his face, and holding aloft the terrible molar. Brad was panting, over ...
— Shawn of Skarrow • James Tandy Ellis
... the osseous polygonal plates, which "late observations" (what are they?) show belong to the Megatherium. Immediately I saw this I thought they must belong to an enormous armadillo, living species of which genus are so abundant here. 3rd, The lower jaw of some large animal which, from the molar teeth, I should think belonged to the Edentata; 4th, some large molar teeth which in some respects would seem to belong to an enormous rodent; 5th, also some smaller teeth belonging to the same order. If it interests you sufficiently to unpack ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin


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