| 单词 | molar |
| 释义 | molar (once / 5837 pages) 1nadj 2adj 3adj The big strong teeth in the back of your mouth are molars. Molars make it possible for you to chew and grind the food you eat. If you don't have molars, don't order the steak. Humans generally have twelve molars by the time they're adults, including the wisdom teeth which often grow in crooked and need to be removed. All mammals have molars, used for crushing and grinding food, but they come in a wide variety of sizes and shapes. Molar comes from the Latin molaris dens, "grinding tooth," from the root mola, "millstone." WORD FAMILYmolar: molarity, molars, premolar+/mole: molar, moles/premolar: premolars USAGE EXAMPLES“A prisoner has a bad molar. He complains. He gets beaten up. No medical attention.” Wall Street Journal(Nov 29, 2016) In this case, the team members uncovered the top portion of the skull, which included five molars. New York Times(Nov 08, 2016) Then he was gone, leaving Mariam to spit out pebbles, blood, and the fragments of two broken molars. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) 1 1n grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars Syn|Hypo|Hyper grinder wisdom tooth any of the last 4 teeth on each side of the upper and lower jaw; the last of the permanent teeth to erupt (between ages 16 and 21) tooth hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense 2adj of or pertaining to the grinding teeth in the back of a mammal's mouth 2molar teeth 1adj containing one mole of a substance molar weight 2adj designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution 3adj pertaining to large units of behavior "such molar problems of personality as the ego functions"--R.R. Hunt Ant molecular relating to simple or elementary organization |
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