mammillary

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Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
23
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈmamɪləɹi/ (UK)

Definition of mammillary

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
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adj

  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.”

noun

  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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Etymology

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

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