Crossword clues for molar
molar
- Canine's kin
- Canine companion
- Tooth used for grinding
- One of a dozen in a set of 32
- Kind of tooth
- Jawbreaker breaker
- Jaw protrusion
- It may be filled before it bites
- It may be drilled before it's filled
- Good for grinding
- Drilling site, maybe
- Canine's relative
- Back chewer
- Wisdom tooth e.g
- Tooth with cusps
- Tooth in the back of the mouth
- Tooth for chewing
- Tooth associated with wisdom
- Suitable for grinding
- Setting for a crown, perhaps
- Plaque site, perhaps
- Place for a dental crown
- Oral grinder
- One of a mouthy 12
- One of a human dozen
- One might wear a crown
- Meat grinder, at times
- Mammalian grinder
- Large grinder
- It shouldn't be used as an icebreaker
- Grinder in the mouth
- Grinder in the back
- Dental X-ray image
- Cuspid's neighbor
- Crushing tooth
- Certain grinder
- Certain biter
- Canine's cousin
- Body part whose name comes from the Latin for "millstone"
- Back tooth used for grinding
- Back tooth (5)
- Any of 12 of our teeth
- Adapted for grinding
- #2 on a dentist's chart
- Grinder of a sort
- Back tooth used for chewing
- Back biter?
- Bicuspid neighbor
- One may be crowned
- Grinding tooth
- Large 16-Across
- Place for a crown
- Meat grinder?
- Canine cousin
- Wisdom tooth, e.g.
- One of eight baby teeth
- One of 12 grinders
- Bicuspid's neighbor
- Tooth type
- Canine kin?
- Dentist's concern
- First permanent tooth
- Dental concern
- Wisdom tooth, e.g
- Cheek tooth
- Part of a mouthful
- Canine's neighbor
- Plaque target
- Chewer and grinder
- Second half of larger tooth
- Relating to large masses may be called wisdom
- Damage surrounding short old tooth
- Damage on outside of round large tooth
- Type of tooth
- Canine neighbor
- Certain tooth
- Wisdom tooth, for instance
- Crown spot
- Cavity site, often
- Canine companion?
- A tooth
- Wisdom tooth, for one
- Wisdom tooth, for example
- One of twelve teeth
- It might be impacted
- Food grinder
- Filling site
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
molar \mo"lar\ (m[=o]"l[~e]r), a. [L. moles mass.] (Mech.) Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms.
molar \mo"lar\ (m[=o]"l[~e]r or m[=o]"l[aum]r), a. [L. moles mass.] (Chem.) Being at a concentration having the designated number of moles (of solute) per liter of solvent; as, an 0.2 molar solution of sodium chloride in water is close to isotonic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"grinding tooth," mid-14c., from Latin molaris dens "grinding tooth," from mola "millstone," from PIE root *mel- "to rub, grind" (see mill (n.1)). As an adjective in this sense from 1620s. In Old English they were cweornteð "quern-teeth."
in chemistry, "pertaining to one mole," 1902, from mole (4) + -ar.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding. n. A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food. Etymology 2
a. 1 (context chemistry English) Of, relating to, or being a solution containing one mole of solute per litre of solution. 2 (context physics English) Of or relating to a complete body of matter as distinct from its molecular or atomic constituents.
WordNet
n. grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars [syn: grinder]
adj. designating a solution containing 1 mole of solute per 1000 grams of solvent [syn: molal]
of or pertaining to molar teeth; "molar weight"
containing one mole of a substance; "molar weight"
pertaining to large units of behavior; "such molar problems of personality as the ego functions"--R.R. Hunt [syn: molar(a)] [ant: molecular(a)]
Wikipedia
Molar may refer to:
- Molar (tooth), the fourth kind of tooth in mammals
- Molar (grape), another name for the Spanish wine grape Listan Negro
- Molar concentration, a unit of concentration, or molarity, of solutions equal to 1 mole per litre
- Molar mass
- Molar volume
- El Molar, Tarragona, a village in the comarca (county) of Priorat, province of Tarragona in the autonomous region of Catalonia, Spain
- El Molar, Madrid, a town in the north of the Community of Madrid in the road to Burgos, after San Agustín de Guadalix
- Molar behavior, or molara, larger units of behavior in psychology
See also:
- Moler, a power-pop band from Australia
The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth. They are more developed in mammals. They are used primarily to grind food during chewing. The name molar derives from Latin, molaris dens, meaning "millstone tooth", from "mola", millstone and dens, tooth. Molars show a great deal of diversity in size and shape across mammal groups.
Usage examples of "molar".
They were maras, a sort of agouti, a little larger than their congeners of tropical countries, regular American rabbits, with long ears, jaws armed on each side with five molars, which distinguish the agouti.
They are however without teeth only in the front of the jaw in all, but with a few molars in some, the Indian forms however are truly edentate, having no teeth at all.
A somewhat analogous case, though not ending fatally, was reported by Hertz of a woman of twenty-six, who was anesthetized for the extraction of the right second inferior molar.
The characteristics of the skulls confirm this arrangement, as the short-clawed Otters are distinguishable from the others by a shorter and more globose cranium and larger molars, and, as Dr.
A moment later, Goldy Tancred appeared in person, to display his shining molars when he saw the detective.
Kadence nodded, pulled a roll of sugar-free breath-mint life-savers from her purse, popped one in her mouth, and they all sat cracking hard bits of food between their molars.
The molars are more tuberculated than in the bears, resembling the hinder molars of a dog.
The other was a male with eroded three-cusp molars, callused foot pads and chipped claws, and ulcerated patches where his elbows and knees and shoulder bones had abraded against rock.
The only time the antrum is ever entered in any other way is if the man is minus teeth and has to retain that first molar to chew on.
Liston removed a large piece of bone from the right bronchus of a woman, and Houston tells of a case in which a molar tooth was lodged in a bronchus causing death on the eleventh day.
Each jaw contains six pointed cutting teeth, two very sharp, recurved canines, and molars that have evolved into cutting blades.
And he laughs again, opening his mouth so wide that Henry catches a glimpse of blackened molars within.
There is a possibility that it was simply a case of hydatidiform or multiple molar pregnancy, elaborated by an exhaustive imagination and superstitious awe.
But the real shocker is that the mitochondrial DNA in the molar is identical to the mitochondrial DNA in the Kidron tomb family.
They were maras, a sort of agouti, a little larger than their congeners of tropical countries, regular American rabbits, with long ears, jaws armed on each side with five molars, which distinguish the agouti.