mammillary.
Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
Meaning & usage
Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
Pertaining to the nipples.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French mamillaire or directly from Late Latin mammillāris, from mamilla + -aris, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French mamillaire or directly from Late Latin mammillāris, from mamilla + -aris, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).
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