Meanings
nounmammillaria (plural mammillarias)
plural mammillarias
- biologyAny member of the cactus genus Mammillaria.
For some years back collections of mammillarias, from whatever parts of the world they came, were grown in our hothouses, and many of them are still kept there.
1841, John Claudius Loudon, The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement, volume 7, page 511
Origin
From the genus name.
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Rhymes with mammillaria
areaBulgariamalariaBavariamilitariasamariaurticariaradiolariaHungariacnidariafritillariaCarpentariacrotalarialaminariaaraucariamatricariapulmonariacalvariaarmillarialinariaSumeriarosariabariaCaria
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APA
mammillaria. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mammillaria
MLA
“mammillaria.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mammillaria. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mammillaria,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mammillaria.
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