molar

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Lodged firmly between her incisor and first pre-molar was a gnarly piece of lettuce.

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  1. adjective Chemistry Relating to or designating a solution that contains one mole of solute per liter of solution.
  2. adjective Chemistry Containing one mole of a substance.
  3. adjective Physics Of or relating to a body of matter as a whole, perceived apart from molecular or atomic properties.

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  • “How dare you It's a molar,” Doc Snow interrupted, looking so unruffled by this strange turn of events I had to figure (rightly, I learned later) that he'd helped my brother arrange them. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2005
  • Malic grinned and Quark was intrigued to see there was something shiny embedded in his rearmost molar, something that twinkled merrily and, more important, expensively. —  Star Trek - DS9 - Section 31 book 3 - Abyss
  • The ship shook so hard, I thought I'd lose a molar or two, and when it turned upside-down, I opened my mouth to scream only to find myself unable to breathe. —  Asimov'sSF,October-November2007
  • Bonaparte points with glee to three tiny lobes on the molar, a feature so peculiar that he can think of "nothing like it among fossils and living fishes, amphibians, reptiles, or birds." —  Omni: May 1993
  • The shortening of the jaw is still proceeding, and, although in lower races of man the last molar or wisdom tooth is almost as large as the molars in front of it, in the higher races the wisdom tooth is much smaller and frequently does not develop at all, or begins to decay very soon after its appearance. —  Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work
 

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  1. From mole5.
  2. From Middle English molares, molars, from Latin molāris, belonging to a mill, grinder, molar, from mola, millstone; see melə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French molaire = Spanish Portuguese molar = Italian molare, from Latin molaris, belonging to a mill; as a noun (sc. lapis) a millstone, also (sc. dens, tooth) a grinder-tooth; from mola, a millstone, in plural molœ, a mill, from molere, grind: see mill. Cf. mole, mole.
  2. from Latin moles, a great mass (see mole), + -ar.
  3. from mole + -ar. Cf. molar, of same ult. formation.
 

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