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mammillary en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈmamɪləɹi/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle French mamillaire or directly from Late Latin mammillāris, from mamilla + -aris, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).

Meanings

1. Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
2. 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. 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2001, page 273:

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Deriveds

tuberomammillary · retromammillary · mammillary body · perimammillary · supramammillary · premammillary · postmammillary · mammillariform · areolomammillary · intermammillary

Relateds

mammary · mammillar · Mammillaria

mammillary en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmamɪləɹi/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle French mamillaire or directly from Late Latin mammillāris, from mamilla + -aris, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).

Meanings

1. A carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.
2. 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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