premolar

Example Sentences

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Due to their diet of insects and fruit, their premolars and molars are smaller than those of other bears, but they have large canines to use for defense.

From Fox News

They came up with counts of 75 and 74 days for the two twins, which was 65–66 days shorter than the average prenatal formation time for premolars.

From Salon

Looking at the teeth, for example, the premolars of H. luzonensis are large and one of them has an extra tooth root—primitive features.

From Scientific American

The premolars are about the size of ours, but instead of a single root they have two or three—a primitive feature.

From Science Magazine

The premolars discovered at Callao Cave are small but still in the range of those of H. sapiens and H. floresiensis.

From Nature