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  • noun Plural form of premolar.

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Examples

  • The latter (Fig. 17) comprise four incisors, two canines, four small grinders, called premolars or false molars, and six large grinders, or true molars, in each jaw — making thirty-two in all.

    Essays 2007

  • Those cheek teeth of the second set, which have predecessors in the first series, are called premolars; the ones posterior to these are the molars.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • The latter (Figure 17) comprise four incisors, two canines, four small grinders, called premolars or false molars, and six large grinders, or true molars, in each jaw -- making thirty-two in all.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • The latter (Fig. 17) comprise four incisors, two canines, four small grinders, called premolars or false molars, and six large grinders, or true molars, in each jaw -- making thirty-two in all.

    On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • The premolars and molars are squarish, flattened and nodular, and used for crushing, grinding and pulping noncoarse foods.

    Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City 2009

  • The premolars and molars are squarish, flattened and nodular, and used for crushing, grinding and pulping noncoarse foods.

    Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City 2009

  • While the teeth of modern crocodiles tend to be cone-shaped and pointed at the end to seize and tear prey, the ancient crocodile had a variety, including primitive canines, premolars and molars.

    Fossil of 'cat-like' crocodile found in Tanzania 2010

  • Peter Brown, a paleontologist at the University of New England in Australia, said that his examination of the premolars and lower jaws of the specimens made it almost immediately “very, very clear that this was a hominid in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

    NYT - A Tiny Hominid With No Place on the Family Tree William Harryman 2009

  • Unfortunately their specific status remains uncertain as not enough data is known – while populations might be continuous with B. celebensis and hence referable to that species, a skull from near Kulawi in central Sulawesi differs from other babirusas in being particularly small, in having proportionally long lower premolars, and in various cranial proportions.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Unfortunately their specific status remains uncertain as not enough data is known – while populations might be continuous with B. celebensis and hence referable to that species, a skull from near Kulawi in central Sulawesi differs from other babirusas in being particularly small, in having proportionally long lower premolars, and in various cranial proportions.

    The many babirusa species: laissez-faire lumping under fire again Darren Naish 2006

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