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Mamma

//ˈmæmə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.

    "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."

  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of mama: mother. alt-of, alternative

    "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."

  3. 3
    milk-secreting organ of female mammals wordnet
  4. 4
    An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.
  5. 5
    informal terms for a mother wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin mamma.

Etymology 2

Alternative spelling of mama; see further etymology there.

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