malar
adjective
of or relating to the cheek or zygomatic bone.
malar
1 American
[may-ler]
/ ˈmeɪ lər /
adjective
noun
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malars
plural
Mälar
2
American
[may-ler, -lahr]
/ ˈmeɪ lər, -lɑr /
noun
malar
British
/ ˈmeɪlə /
adjective
noun
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Etymology
Origin of malar
1775–85; < New Latin mālāris of, pertaining to the cheek, equivalent to Latin māl ( a ) cheek, jaw ( see maxilla) + -āris -ar 1
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I knew he was thinking about malar and the fever.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
In birds there is no conspicuous temporal fossa, because the malar bar is a slender rod of bone in a line with the lower end of the quadrate bone.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
In Dimorphodon its hinder border is partly covered by the descending edge of the malar process which these animals develop in common with some Dinosaurs, and some Anomodont reptiles, and many of the lower mammals.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
Jerdon, who has in some measure adopted these remarks, adds that the tail is more tufted, and the malar beard is well marked.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
Frontal malar projection is also common but more often moderately so; 87 per cent show medium projection and 12 per cent are pronounced.
From A Racial Study of the Fijians by Norman E. Gabel
The queen of the Mälar had clothed herself for the occasion in a festive dress of incomparable splendour.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
Swollen as they were, they emptied into Lake Mälar, and it was not long before the lake had taken in as much water as it could well hold.
From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Velma Swanston Howard
As soon as Dunfin came to Lake Mälar the landscape looked familiar to her.
From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Velma Swanston Howard
In the beginning these islets were common wooded islands, such as one finds in plenty on Lake Mälar even to-day, and for ages they were entirely uninhabited.
From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Velma Swanston Howard
Here, from the west, comes a lake filled with islands: It is Lake Mälar.
From The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Velma Swanston Howard
Strongly developed malars are common, and they tend to project laterally more than frontally.
From A Racial Study of the Fijians by Norman E. Gabel
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