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mast | mamma |

As a pronoun mast

is .

As a noun mamma is

mommy, mum, mummy.

mast

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mast, from (etyl) , Irish adhmad.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.
  • In naval tradition, a mast is a non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those in his command.
    • Derived terms
    {{der3, foremast , mainmast , masthead , mizzenmast , before the mast}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To supply and fit a mast to a ship

    • See also

    (other terms) * boom * crow's nest * flagpole * spar * top, maintop, foretop, mizzentop * tower * column * pole * pylon * tower

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) , from West Germanic; probably related to meat.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.
  • * 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, page 162:
    • He would begin to pick up the seed-cases or mast , squeeze each one with his fingers to see if it were fertile, and drop it if it were not.
  • * (rfdate) Chapman
    • Oak-mast , and beech, and cornel fruit, they eat.
  • * (rfdate) South
    • Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit.
  • (agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles.
  • *
  • * {{quote-book, title=Forest Diversity and Function: Temperate and Boreal Systems, page=28,
    • books.google.com/books?isbn=3540221913, author=Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Christian Körner, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, year=2004, passage=However, if this were true, all or most masting' species (e.g., ''Fagus'' and ''Quercus'') in a forest would have to ' mast in synchrony to be effective against generalist herbivores.}}
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    • Related terms

    * mast cell

    Anagrams

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    mamma

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (anatomy) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
  • (meteorology) an accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera
    • Derived terms
    * mammal * mammalgia * mammaplasty * mammary * mammate * mammatroph * mammectomy * mammiform * mammilla * mammiplasia * mammitis * mammoplasia * mammogen * mammogenesis * mammogram * mammography * mammose * mammosomatotrope * mammosomatotroph * mammotomy * mammotroph * mammotropic * mammotrophic * mammotropin

    Etymology 2

    Alternative spelling of mama'' or ''momma .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • : mother .
  • * 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her mamma . They told her she was away; that she would bring her back some playthings.
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