malar bone

Questions about malar bone

What does malar bone mean?

malar bone means "the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek".

What is another word for malar bone?

Close synonyms include cheekbone, zygomatic bone, zygomatic, malar, jugal bone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is malar bone a common word?

malar bone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.