tooth vs molar

tooth and molar both are nouns.

tooth is not an adjective while molar is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tooth	Yes	No	No	No
molar	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, molar is a hyponym of tooth; that is, molar is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than tooth:

tooth: hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
molar: grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars

Other hyponyms of tooth include fang, tusk, conodont, chopper, pearly, carnassial tooth, anterior, front tooth, back tooth, posterior, malposed tooth, adult tooth, permanent tooth, baby tooth, deciduous tooth, milk tooth, primary tooth, canine, canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth, bicuspid, premolar, incisor, grinder.

tooth (noun)	molar (noun)
a means of enforcement	grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars
toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
something resembling the tooth of an animal
one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense

tooth (adjective)	molar (adjective)
	pertaining to large units of behavior
	containing one mole of a substance
	designating a solution containing one mole of solute per liter of solution
	of or pertaining to the grinding teeth in the back of a mammal's mouth

Difference between tooth and molar

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