Mammilla

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The nipple.
  2. 2
    the small projection of a mammary gland wordnet
  3. 3
    A nipple-like object.

Etymology

From Latin mammilla, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).

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