mammillary

comparative more mammillary · superlative most mammillary · alternative mammillar · alternative mamillary

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

plural mammillaries · alternative mammillar · alternative mamillary

1. geographyA carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.
2. anatomyA mammillary body, one of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the brain, that form part of the limbic system.