plural of mammilla

(anatomy) The nipple.

Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form. / Pertaining to the nipples.

(geology, speleology) A carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.

plural of mammillary

plural of mammillary body

(anatomy) One of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the human brain, that act as a relay for impulses coming from the amygdalae and hippocampi to the thalamus, and (as part of the diencephalon) form part of the limbic system.

(obsolete) Shaped like a breast.

Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammae. / Bounded like a nipple; said of the apex of some shells.

plural of mammillaria