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English
Etymology
From Middle French mamillaire, or its source, Late Latin mamillaris.
Pronunciation
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, published 2001, page 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.
Derived terms
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.