Mammillary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈmamɪləɹi/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Mammillary is an adjective meaning Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
Meaning
Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
More Meanings
- Pertaining to the nipples.
- (geology, speleology) A carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.
- (anatomy) 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.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- mammillar
- mamillary
- mammillaries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include breastlike, nipplelike, papillary, womblike, moundlike, mastlike.
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