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Mammillary

//ˈmamɪləɹi// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
  2. 2
    Pertaining to the nipples.

    "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."

Noun
  1. 1
    A carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.
  2. 2
    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.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French mamillaire, or its source, Late Latin mamillaris.

Etymology 2

From Middle French mamillaire, or its source, Late Latin mamillaris.

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