mammillary
nounEtymology From Middle French mamillaire or directly from Late Latin mammillāris, from mamilla + -aris, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).
mammillary
adjUK /ˈmamɪləɹi/
Etymology From Middle French mamillaire or directly from Late Latin mammillāris, from mamilla + -aris, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).
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:
- Derived terms
- areolomammillary, intermammillary, mammillariform, mammillary body, perimammillary, postmammillary, premammillary, retromammillary, supramammillary, tuberomammillary
- Related terms
- mammary, mammillar, Mammillaria