Molar Definition

mōlər
molars
adjective
Relating to or designating the molarity of a solution.
American Heritage
Designating or of a tooth or teeth adapted for grinding.
Webster's New World
Relating to the mole, or gram-molecular weight; specif., designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution.
Webster's New World
Of a body (of matter) as a whole.
Webster's New World
Relating to the molars.
American Heritage Medicine
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noun
molars
A molar tooth: in humans there are usually twelve permanent molars, three on each side of each jaw behind the bicuspids.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Molar

Noun

Singular:
molar
Plural:
molars

Origin of Molar

  • From Middle English molares molars from Latin molāris belonging to a mill, grinder, molar from mola millstone melə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin molāris meaning grinding as a millstone (mola).

    From Wiktionary

  • From mole (chemical term).

    From Wiktionary

  • From mole

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Molar Sentence Examples

  • Thank goodness the molar nightmare was over.

  • In the upper molars the two outer columns or tubercles of the primitive tubercular molar coalesce to form an outer wall, from which proceed two crescentic transverse crests, the connexion between the crests and the wall being slight or imperfect, and the crests themselves sometimes tubercular.

  • Crown of the last lower molar commonly bilobed.

  • Lophiodochoerus apparently represents this stage in the European Lower Eocene; Isectolophus, of the American Middle Eocene, represents a distinct advance, the last upper premolar becoming molar-like, while a second species from the Upper Eocene is still more advanced; the third lobe is, however, retained in the last lower molar.

  • With the exception of the first lower premolar, the dentit i on is complete; the incisors being normal, but the canine rudimentary, and the last upper molar distinctly triangular.

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