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Webster 1913 Edition
Mammillary
1.
Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.
2.
(Min.)
Composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mammillary
MAM'MILLARY
,Adj.
1.
In mineralogy, applied to minerals composed of convex concretions.Definition 2024
mammillary
mammillary
English
Adjective
mammillary (comparative more mammillary, superlative most mammillary)
- Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
- Pertaining to the nipples.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2001, p. 273:
- 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.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2001, p. 273:
Derived terms
Related terms
- mammary
- mammillar
- Mammillaria
Noun
mammillary (plural mammillaries)
- (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.