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mammillary

UK/ˈmamɪləɹi/

mammillary adjective: resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.

Adjective

mammillary (comparative more mammillary, superlative most mammillary)

  1. Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
  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.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2001, page 273

Noun

mammillary (plural mammillaries)

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

mammillary meaning in Tamil

mammillary in Tamil

முலைக்காம்பு உருவில், முலைக்காம்பு ஒத்த உரு

Forms of mammillary

Adjective
comparativemore mammillary
superlativemost mammillary
alternative formmammillar
alternative formmamillary
Noun
pluralmammillaries

Origin of mammillary

From Middle French mamillaire or directly from Late Latin mammillāris, from mamilla + -aris, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).

Words formed from mammillary

Phrases with mammillary

Questions about mammillary

What does mammillary mean?
Mammillary means resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
What is mammillary in Tamil?
Mammillary in Tamil is முலைக்காம்பு உருவில், முலைக்காம்பு ஒத்த உரு. See Mammillary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mammillary?
Mammillary can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce mammillary?
Mammillary is pronounced /ˈmamɪləɹi/ (UK).

Words near mammillary in the dictionary

  1. mammillar
  2. mammillaria
  3. mammillarias
  4. mammillaries
  5. mammillariform
  6. mammillary
  7. mammillary bodies
  8. mammillary body
  9. mammillate
  10. mammillated
  11. mammillation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mammillary (page history and authors); mammillary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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