mamma
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 5
/ˈmæmə/
Definition of mamma
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
“Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other […] Thus, to take an extreme case, the mammæ of men will, under special excitation, yield milk: there are various cases of gynecomasty on record, and in famines infants whose mothers have died have been thus saved.”
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noun
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The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
“Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other […] Thus, to take an extreme case, the mammæ of men will, under special excitation, yield milk: there are various cases of gynecomasty on record, and in famines infants whose mothers have died have been thus saved.”
- An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of mama: mother.
“1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her mamma. They told her she was away; that she would bring her back some playthings.”
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin mamma.
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