premolar

From pre- +‎ molar.

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• Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)

premolar (plural premolars)

1. 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)
   • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

     He opened and let out a hogo of medicinal rum and beer. The bad tooth was a premolar.

• (a tooth): bicuspid

premolar (not comparable)

1. Before a molar tooth, either in physical position or in its time of development; deciduous.

• premoral

premolar m (definite singular premolaren, indefinite plural premolarer, definite plural premolarene)

1. premolar

premolar m (definite singular premolaren, indefinite plural premolarar, definite plural premolarane)

1. premolar

Borrowed from French prémolaire.

premolar m (plural premolari)

1. premolar

• IPA^(key): /pɾemoˈlaɾ/ [pɾe.moˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pre‧mo‧lar

premolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural premolares)

1. premolar

• “premolar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024