mamma
noun/ˈmæmə/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Latin mamma.
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Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences 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.1880, Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology, page 434:
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Climatology, Meteorology, Natural sciences An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.
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mammal, mammalgia, mammaplasty, mammary, mammate, mammatroph, mammectomy, mammiferous, mammiform, mammilla, mammiplasia, mammitis, mammogen, mammogenesis, mammogram, mammography, mammoplasia, mammose, mammosomatotrope, mammosomatotroph, mammotomy, mammotroph, mammotrophic, mammotropic, mammotropin, pseudomamma