Definitions for Malar

Malar ma·lar

Spelling: [mey-ler]
IPA: /ˈmeɪ lər/

Malar is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in Malar (aalmr).

Definitions for Malar

noun

  1. Also, malar bone. zygomatic bone.
  2. Lake, a lake in S Sweden, extending W from Stockholm. 440 sq. mi. (1140 sq. km).

adjective

  1. of or relating to the cheek or zygomatic bone.

Origin of Malar

1775-85; New Latin mālāris of, pertaining to the cheek, equivalent to Latin māl(a) cheek, jaw (see maxilla) + -āris -ar1

Examples for Malar

The malar bone, and the os unguis or lachrymal, are more or less developed according to the species considered.

In Dimorphodon the malar bone is entirely removed from the quadrate, but in Pterodactylus it meets its articular end.

As in that animal, the malar bone is bifid posteriorly, and between the bifurcation is embraced the process of the squamosal.

When a separate antorbital vacuity exists, it is bordered by the maxillary bone in front, and by the malar bone behind.

Nor is the malar bone a guide, for this might easily be mistaken for the tuberosity of the ischium, or even for the shoulder.

The lower arch includes the malar bone, which is in front in the single arch of mammals.

The malar always extends back to form part of the glenoid cavity.

And in the malar Lake the bays correspond 50 to the capes in Seeland.

Be this as it may, the breadth in the malar portion of the face is a remarkable feature in the Kaffre physiognomy.

In the ox and the sheep, it articulates with a process of the malar bone.

Word Value for Malar
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7

Words with friends

9

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