molar
A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
Example
“Jamie had a molar removed as it was decaying.”
Other meanings
A unit of concentration equal to one mole per litre.
Synonyms
- grinder
A kind of
- tooth
Kinds of molar
- wisdom tooth
- second molar
Word history
From Latin "molāris" (millstone, molar).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “molar” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.