Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small hill or mound with a round top; a hemispherical elevation: so called from its resemblance to a woman's breast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
hillock ; a roundedelevation orprotuberance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Shape ovate, with a small mamelon at the apex; surface pale dusky yellow, regularly and closely netted, except the mamelon, which is but little marked; rind very thin; flesh from an inch and a half to two inches thick, pale-green, sometimes becoming reddish towards the inside, exceedingly tender and juicy; juice sweet, and delicately perfumed.
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In the case of "compound stamens" the original stamens are first developed each from its own cellular "mamelon," or growing point; and, after a time, other secondary growing points emerge from the primary one, and in this way the stamens are increased in number, without reference, necessarily, to the so-called law of alternation.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In fact when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin,"
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In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
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Meanwhile, as the rest of the army filed past, and the colloquy was proceeding, all the people of the place had time to gather gradually, and the enemy formed; and as soon as the Hellenes began to descend from the mamelon to join the others where the troops were halted, on rushed the foe, in full force, with hue and cry.
Anabasis 2007
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The rock itself was formed about six million years ago when lava was forced up through a narrow vent and formed a mamelon, a French word for nipple, which is a quite apt description of it.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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After this achievement the barbarians came to a crest facing the mamelon, and Xenophon held a colloquy with them by means of an interpreter, to negotiate a truce, and demanded back the dead bodies.
Anabasis 2007
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A second mamelon is clearly visible on nearby Mt Macedon and are apparently the best examples of this geological structure in the world.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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They reached the summit of the mamelon from which Xenophon was descending, and began rolling down crags.
Anabasis 2007
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This was none other than the mamelon mentioned as above the outpost, which had been captured over their fire by the volunteer storming party in the night.
Anabasis 2007
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