Mamma

Quick meaning: Mamma is a noun meaning (meteorology) An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.

Meaning

(meteorology) An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.

More Meanings

1. (anatomy, plural mammae) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
2. Alternative spelling of mama: mother.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• mammae
• mammas

Synonyms for mamma

Depending on context, synonyms include mama, mater, mum, mom, momma, mommy.

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