malar

¹ American  

[mey-ler] / ˈmeɪ lər /

adjective

1. of or relating to the cheek or zygomatic bone.

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noun

1. Also malar bone zygomatic bone.

Mälar ² American  

[mey-ler, -lahr] / ˈmeɪ lər, -lɑr /

noun

1. Lake, a lake in S Sweden, extending W from Stockholm. 440 sq. mi. (1,140 sq. km).

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malar British  

/ ˈmeɪlə /

adjective

1. of or relating to the cheek or cheekbone

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noun

1. Also called: malar bone.  another name for zygomatic bone

Other Word Forms

• intermalar adjective

Etymology

Origin of malar

1775–85; < New Latin mālāris of, pertaining to the cheek, equivalent to Latin māl ( a ) cheek, jaw ( maxilla ) + -āris -ar ¹

Example Sentences

I knew he was thinking about malar and the fever.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

In the Ground Hornbill and the Shoebill the lachrymal bones in front of the orbits of the eyes grow down to meet the malar bars without uniting with them.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

In the ox and the sheep, it articulates with a process of the malar bone.

From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard

Female similar, but without the scarlet malar patch.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

Zygoma, zī-gō′ma, n. the arch formed by the malar bone and the zygomatic process of the temporal bone of the skull.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various