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Mammillar vs Mammillary - What's the difference?

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Mammillary is a related term of mammillar.


Mammillar is often a misspelling of mammillary.


Mammillar has no English definition.

As an adjective mammillary is

resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.

As a noun mammillary is

a carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.

mammillar

Not English

Mammillar has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'mammillar':

mammillary, monolayer, minelayer, mamillary

mammillary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
  • Pertaining to the nipples.
  • *1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2001, p. 273:
  • *: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.

    • Derived terms

    * mammillary body

    Related terms

    * mammary * mammillar * Mammillaria

    Noun

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

    • Alternative forms

    * mamillary