Malar meaning

mā'lər, -lär'
Of or relating to the zygomatic bone or the cheek.
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The cheekbone.
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Of the cheek, cheekbone, or side of the head.
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Lake in SE Sweden: 440 sq mi (1,140 sq km)
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Relating to the zygomatic bone or the cheek.
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Pertaining to the cheek.
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(anatomy) The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.
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Origin of malar

From modern Latin malaris, from Latin mala (“jaw, cheek-bone").

Sentence Examples

  • X P11,1x, premaxilla; Mx, maxilla; Ma, malar; Fr, frontal; L, lachrymal; Pa, parietal; Na, nasal; Sq, squamosal; Ty, tympanic; ExO, exoccipital; AS, alisphenoid; OS, orbito-sphenoid; Per, mastoid bulla.

  • But though situated at a central point on Lake Malar, it was destroyed, apparently before the beginning of the nth century (exactly when or by whom is uncertain); and it never recovered.

  • Sigtuna, lying on the shore of a far-reaching northern arm of Lake Malar, also a royal residence and the seat of the first mint in Sweden, where English workmen were employed by King Olaf at the beginning of the 11th century, was destroyed in the 12th century.

  • Nordensvan, Mdlardrottningen [" the queen of Malar"] (Stockholm, 1896); E.

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