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He loves the intricate play of light and shade, and the irregular, contorted, honeycombed surface which produces it; craggy, scarred, indented mountains, “like an old lion's cheek-teeth”; [79] old towns with huddled roofs and towers picked out
Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905
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It is quite clear that man's cheek-teeth do not enable him to cut lumps of meat and bone from raw carcases and swallow them whole, nor to grip live fish and swallow them straight off (Pl. VI).
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They cut the bones and muscles of their prey into great lumps with the scissor-like cheek-teeth, and swallow great pieces whole without mastication.
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When the surface of the cheek-teeth is broad, with low and numerous tubercles, the food of the animal is of a rather soft substance, which yields to
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Insect-eating mammals have cheek-teeth with three or four sharp-pointed tubercles standing up on the surface.
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Then we turn the corner of the mouth-front, as it were, and come to the "grinders," cheek-teeth or molars.
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Where the vegetable food is coarse grass or tree twigs, requiring long and thorough grinding, transverse ridges of enamel are present on the cheek-teeth, as in elephants, cattle, deer, and rabbits (see Figs. 8, 17, 19).
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In the lower jaw there were only two large incisors besides the cheek-teeth or grinders.
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There we find on each side the group of grinding cheek-teeth, with transverse ridges on their crowns, and a long, toothless gap before we arrive at the front teeth.
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The word "molar" is often used to include the five cheek-teeth on each side of each jaw, but more strictly the anterior bicuspid teeth are called "pre-molars," and the three larger teeth behind them, which have no predecessors or representatives in the first or milk dentition, are called true molars or simply "molars" -- a rule we have followed here.
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