premolar

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a tooth situated between a canine and a molar; in an adult human, one of the eight teeth also called bicuspids

   The dentist found a small cavity in the upper premolar.

2. 2
   adj

   situated or developing in front of a molar tooth

   The fossil's premolar teeth were unusually broad.

A shortening of premolar tooth, modeled on Latin dens praemolaris, 'tooth before a molar.' It is formed from pre-, 'before,' and molar.

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