molar

• “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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