mammillary
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mammillary
- /ˈmamɪləɹi/ UK
Where it comes from
From Middle French mamillaire or directly from Late Latin mammillāris, from mamilla + -aris, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).
adjective more mammillary · most mammillary · mammillar · mamillary
- Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
- Pertaining to the nipples. On the other hand, no woman who had ever borne a child (even in her own childhood) could be accepted, no matter how free she was of mammilary blemishes.
noun mammillaries · mammillar · mamillary
- A carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.
- A mammillary body, one of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the brain, that form part of the limbic system.
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