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Canine's neighbor
Answer for the clue "Canine's neighbor ", 8 letters:
premolar
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A tooth situated in front of the molar teeth; especially a tooth in humans with two cusps which is between the canines and the molars (latin: ''singular'' '''dens premolaris''', ''plural'' '''dentes premolares''')(jump a tooth s)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"premolar tooth," 1841, from pre- + molar . Related: Premolars .\n
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Premolar \Pre*mo"lar\, a. (Anat.) Situated in front of the molar teeth. --n. An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar. See Tooth .
Usage examples of premolar.
It differs from the next species by a small projecting tooth on the inner margin of the ear conch, by the smaller size of the first upper premolar, and by the colour.
Most important would be our canines, which are situated between the lateral incisor and the first premolar on each side of each jaw.
Almost every species had teeth adequate to the task, three pairs of sharp incisors, one pair of elongated canines, four pairs of premolars, and three crushing pairs of molars, upper and lower, for a total of forty-four teeth.
When she had a mouthful, she mushed it around to melt the ice, then squirted the water out through her big, overlapping molars and premolars, and munched the remnants.