premolars
- plural of premolar.
Example Sentences
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Nor the “bizarrely specialized” family of carnivorous marsupials, Malleodectidae, which used their massive ball peen-like third premolars to crush snails.
From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025
For example, bats with long jaws -- like nectar-feeders -- or intermediate jaws, like many insect-eaters, tended to have the usual complement of three premolars and three molars on each side of the jaw.
From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023
Toasted just enough to bring out its subtly nutty flavor and, thus, pebbly enough to reduce one of my favorite premolars into a crumble of toothy dust.
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021
Looking at the teeth, for example, the premolars of H. luzonensis are large and one of them has an extra tooth root—primitive features.
From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2019
The hind teeth, consisting of premolars and molars, are used for grinding.
From The Meaning of Evolution by Schmucker, Samuel Christian
