/ˈmæmə/
OriginLearned borrowing from Latin mamma.
- The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
“Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other […] Thus, to take an extreme case, the mammæ of men will, under special excitation, yield milk”
- An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.
Formsmammae(plural) · mammas(plural)