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

  • 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