Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having nipple-like processes or protuberances; furnished with anything resembling a nipple or nipples: as, a mammillated mineral (as flint containing chalcedony); a mammillated shell (one whose apex is rounded like a teat).
- Nipple-shaped; formed like a teat.
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In course of time the liquid was saturated, and the tartrate was gradually displaced by mammillated crusts, or clear, transparent crystals of carbonate of lime at the bottom and on the sides of the vessel.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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They are especially large in those regions where the amount of perspiration is great, as in the axillæ, where they form a thin, mammillated layer of a reddish color, which corresponds exactly to the situation of the hair in this region; they are large also in the groin.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 2. The Common Integument 1918
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To the westward the view extended over an immense level plain as far as the Mount, at Monte Video, and to the eastward, over the mammillated country of Maldonado.
Chapter III 1909
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In course of time the liquid was saturated, and the tartrate was gradually displaced by mammillated crusts, or clear, transparent crystals of carbonate of lime at the bottom and on the sides of the vessel.
IV. The Physiological Theory of Fermentation. Fermentation of Dextro-Tartrate of Lime 1909
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To the westward the view extended over an immense level plain as far as the Mount, at Monte Video, and to the eastward, over the mammillated country of Maldonado.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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I was charmed with the scenery, consisting of fertile fields, rich woods, the ever-winding Thames and undulating mammillated hills, covered with verdure.
Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 Richard Henry Bonnycastle 1819
ruzuzu commented on the word mammillated
I love that the reverse dictionary options for this are Lachesis and mammillated.
December 18, 2018