malar
adjective
of or relating to the cheek or zygomatic bone.
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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 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
In the ox and the sheep, it articulates with a process of the malar bone.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
In Dimorphodon the malar bone is entirely removed from the quadrate, but in Pterodactylus it meets its articular end.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by H. G. Seeley
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
Through all that summer and autumn Gustavus Vasa had been cooped up in his hiding-place on the Mälar.
From The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa by Paul Barron Watson
Centuries ago, hunters and fishermen built their rude huts on the wooded islands at the outlet of Mälar Lake.
From Gerda in Sweden by Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald
On either side were arms of the Mälar Lake—white, frozen plains.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor
"The Vikings had no such easy way as this of getting from Lake Mälar out into the Baltic Sea," said Lieutenant Ekman, coming up to find the children, and helping himself generously to the kringlor.
From Gerda in Sweden by Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald
Also in Norway we have two rivers called Svart Elv, and in Sweden the Svart An, which falls into the Mälar Lake.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
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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