mammillary
English
Alternative forms
- mamillary
Etymology
From Middle French mamillaire, or its source, Late Latin mamillaris.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmamɪləɹi/
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
- intermammillary
- mammillary body
- premammillary
- retromammillary
- tuberomammillary
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.