If the well-developed condition of the baculum in the microtines having rooted molars is primitive, then within the genus Microtus those species having well-developed bacula may be considered primitive.
The voles in which themolars are least hypsodont are thus considered primitive.
And patrons got huffy, their molars they ground, while Griggins the grocer was fooling around.
Detached milk molars and some fragments of a human skull, proceed from this same place.
The roots of the false molar teeth of the Gorilla, again, are more complex than in Man, and the proportional size of the molars is different.
And in form, the crowns of the molars are very unlike those of the Gorilla, and differ far more widely from the human pattern.
The state of the alveoli and the teeth, shows that the molars had not yet pierced the gum.
The anterior lowermolars have five cusps, three external and two internal.
Premolars compressed, pointed; and the molars with quadrate tuberculated crowns.
Molars in general characters resembling those of Sarcophilus, but of more simple form, the cusps being less distinct and not so sharply pointed.
It may be added that the division of these teeth into premolars and molars in figs.
In the lower jaw there are also one or two small and early deciduous premolars; third premolars of both jaws formed on the same type as that of the rat-kangaroos, but relatively much larger; molars rudimentary, tubercular.
There are but three pairs of incisor teeth in each jaw, and the upper molars are tricuspid.
These three are therefore reckoned as milk-molars, and their successors as premolars, while the last three correspond to the true molars of other mammals.
In the lower jaw the molarsmore compressed, with longer cusps; the last not notably smaller than the others.
The three pairs of molars in each jaw are, like the last premolar, quadritubercular oblong teeth.
The first upper incisor very large and chisel-like, molarswith prominent transverse ridges, as in Macropus, but without the longitudinal connecting ridge.
In elephants the number of ridges on the intermediate molarsalways exceeds five, but in mastodons it is nearly always three or four, and the tooth in front has usually one fewer and that behind one more, so that the ridge-formula (i.
The type genus Xiphodon has selenodont molars and elongated, slender, cutting premolars.
It also differs in the dental formula, which is for the molars Pm 4/3 M 2/1.
Its principal difference from the other genera of Flying Squirrels is that the molars are hypselodont instead of brachyodont.
The Procyonidae have two {427} molars in either half of each jaw.
The dentition of the group is complete; the molars are seleno-bunodont, like those of the Anthracotheriidae.
The molars of the upper jaw have two crests parallel and united by an outer crest.
The molars are always reduced, the premolar being either absent in the lower jaw alone or in both jaws.
The number of ridges on the molars is small, not more than two.
The premolars are simple teeth; the molars distinctly bunodont with a tendency in one or two to the selenodont condition.
The four molars stand out laterally from the jaws.
The canine teeth of existing species have disappeared; the incisors are, or are not, present; the molars and premolars are three and four in each half of each jaw.
The dentition was that of modern Dogs, themolars being two in the upper and three in the lower jaw.
The width of the molars is relatively greater in H.
The relative size of the premolars and molars is the same in H.
Inasmuch as the upper teeth rarely exceed the lower in length in all the related genera of heteromyids, it is assumed that a similar relationship existed between the upper and lower molars of H.
The molars are well worn, but the pattern, as a whole, is easily discernable.
The milk, or temporary, teeth are only twenty in number, there being two incisors, one canine, and two molars on each half of each jaw.
Each of the lower molars carries two crescentic ridges.
Another pause of two or three months and then we get the four canine, which fill in the space between the first molars and the front teeth.
What jaws must the owner of such molars be possessed of!
The molars of the type specimen are in an advanced state of wear, having the pattern of the enamel folds still discernible but the depth of remaining enamel slight.
As a result of the reduction of wear on the opposing m1, the crown of m1 is much less worn than those of the other lower molarsand projects 0.
The skulls of the three fully mature adults are large with a wide zygomatic breadth, large rostrum, and large upper incisors as in scopulorum; but the upper molars are small and the bullae are rather small and narrow as in fallax.
At eighteen months the third permanent molars will be coming through, and at the age of twenty months the pig's teeth are fully developed.
Pigs having their central permanent incisors up, and any of the first three permanent molars cut, will be considered as exceeding twelve months.
These last will be level with the other permanent molars when the pig is fifteen months.
Two temporarymolars are also cut on each side of the jaw above and below, with the first temporary molar in each place ready to come through the gum.
The three temporary molars will also be ready for displacement by three permanents.
For the teeth really differ much: thus the dog has on each side of the upper jaw four pre-molars and only two molars; while the Thylacinus has three pre-molars and four molars.
The molars also differ much in the two animals in relative size and structure.
In the remaining groups the upper molars form narrow V's of the true tritubercular type.
The upper molars are triconodont, being either of the typical or a modified form of what is known as the tritubercular sectorial type.
The young foal has two and sometimes three temporary molars in each jaw (Plate V.
Between the age of three and four the mouth is completed with twelve permanent molars in each jaw, or twenty-four in all (Plate V.
The incisor teeth, three below and three above, developed more and more into effective nippers, and the premolars and molars into grinders of the most delicately complicated and complete kind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "molars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
