English Explanatory Dictionary

mammillary

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/ˈmamɪləɹi/

Word forms

mammillary more mammillary most mammillary mammillar mamillary mammillaries

Etymology

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

Related words

mammary mammillar Mammillaria

Derived words

areolomammillary intermammillary mammillariform mammillary body perimammillary postmammillary premammillary retromammillary supramammillary tuberomammillary
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