molars

1. 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 .)

Example Sentences

We have teeth that allow us to grind plants (molars) or tear flesh (incisors).

From The Daily Beast

Food is caught between irregular projections on the surface of the molars and crushed to a pulpy mass.

From Project Gutenberg

The lower premolar is tricuspidate and the first and second molars are quadritubercular with a broad cingulum.

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These two aptitudes, simple though they be, characterize man better than the number of his vertebrae and his molars.

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There were fifty four teeth in all, and the premolars were larger than the molars.

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Now, as a dentition becomes more distinctly carnivorous, so the hindmost molars and the foremost premolars disappear.

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