Premolar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One of eight bicuspid teeth located in pairs on each side of the upper and lower jaws behind the canines and in front of the molars.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A tooth situated in front of the molar teeth; especially a tooth in humans with two cusps which is between the canines and the molars (latin: singular dens premolaris, plural dentes premolares) syn.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Situated in front of the molar teeth.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Anterior in position, and prior in time, to a molar, as a tooth; situated in advance of molars; deciduous, as a molar; pertaining in any way to premolars: as, a premolar tooth; premolar dentition; the premolar part of a maxillary bone.
  • n. A milk-molar; a molar of the deciduous dentition; a tooth which in the permanent dentition replaces a milk-molar.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tooth   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bicuspid   
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