molars

[ (moh-luhrz) ]

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The teeth with broad surfaces at the back of the mouth that serve to grind food. Including the wisdom teeth, adults have twelve molars — six on the top and six on the bottom. (Compare incisors and canines.)

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We have teeth that allow us to grind plants (molars) or tear flesh (incisors).
The Top 10 Diets of 2013 Are All Useless (Except to Book Publishers)|Kent Sepkowitz|December 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Food is caught between irregular projections on the surface of the molars and crushed to a pulpy mass.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
The lower premolar is tricuspidate and the first and second molars are quadritubercular with a broad cingulum.
Speciation in the Kangaroo Rat, Dipodomys ordii|Henry W. Setzer
These two aptitudes, simple though they be, characterize man better than the number of his vertebrae and his molars.
More Hunting Wasps|J. Henri Fabre

There were fifty four teeth in all, and the premolars were larger than the molars.
A History of Science, Volume 3(of 5)|Henry Smith Williams
Now, as a dentition becomes more distinctly carnivorous, so the hindmost molars and the foremost premolars disappear.
On the Genesis of Species|St. George Mivart

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