Definitions for premolar

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premolar pre·mo·lar

Spelling: [pree-moh-ler]

IPA: /priˈmoʊ lər/

Premolar is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 276 anagrams from letters in premolar (aelmoprr).

Definitions for premolar

noun

1. a premolar tooth.
2. Also called bicuspid. (in humans) any of eight teeth located in pairs on each side of the upper and lower jaws between the cuspids and molar teeth.

adjective

1. situated in front of the molar teeth.
2. pertaining to a milk tooth that will later be supplanted by a permanent molar.

Origin of premolar

First recorded in 1835-45; pre- + molar¹

Examples for premolar

There is but one incisor, but the premolar and molar series are complete.

The representative of the first premolar is minute and soon shod.

The third premolar is lacking from each side of both the upper and the lower jaws of each individual of this series from Álamos.

In the Hapalidae, as in the Cebidae, there is a third premolar, but the molars are reduced to 2/2.

As a rule but one tooth of the milk set is functional, which is (according to many) the fourth premolar.

The dental formula is known, and is complete save for the loss of one incisor above and below, and one premolar above.

Originally: A permanent first premolar (arrow) was discoverd in M-8.

The genus Choeropotamus has a complete dental formula save for the loss of a premolar in the lower jaw.

The small size of the canine and of the first premolar produces a diastema in the tooth series.

It has lost only one premolar, and has therefore forty teeth in all.