molars
[ (moh-luhrz) ]
The teeth with broad surfaces at the back of the mouth that serve to grind food. Including the wisdom teeth, adults have twelve molars — six on the top and six on the bottom. (Compare incisors and canines.)
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How to use molars in a sentence
We have teeth that allow us to grind plants (molars) or tear flesh (incisors).
The Top 10 Diets of 2013 Are All Useless (Except to Book Publishers) | Kent Sepkowitz | December 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFood is caught between irregular projections on the surface of the molars and crushed to a pulpy mass.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterThe lower premolar is tricuspidate and the first and second molars are quadritubercular with a broad cingulum.
Speciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii | Henry W. SetzerThese two aptitudes, simple though they be, characterize man better than the number of his vertebrae and his molars.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreThere were fifty four teeth in all, and the premolars were larger than the molars.
A History of Science, Volume 3(of 5) | Henry Smith Williams
Now, as a dentition becomes more distinctly carnivorous, so the hindmost molars and the foremost premolars disappear.
On the Genesis of Species | St. George Mivart
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