Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a breast or mamma.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a mamma or breast: as, a mammary artery, vein, nerve, duct, etc.; a mammary structure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mammæ or breasts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Of or relating to
mamma orbreast (of a woman or a female animal). - noun A
mamma (milk-secreting organ of a woman or a female animal).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female
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Examples
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Maybe your deficient mammary is impeding your chi flow, or something.
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My associates and I also demonstrated that GH-RH, which we found in mammary, ovarian, endometrial lung cancers and other tumors, is probably an autocrine growth factor.
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Tattle: GMA gives its viewers a short-term mammary REIGNING RAP diva Nicki Minaj channeled Janet Jackson on "Good Morning America" yesterday when she experienced a full-on nipple slip.
PhillyDeals 2011
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= The breasts, also called mammary glands, or mammæ
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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Fistulas may arise from wounds of glandular organs or their ducts, and thus we have the so-called mammary or lacrimal fistulas.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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At one point I had several of these "mammary" formations sprouting out of my wall -- and I never once thought to alert the local news.
Archive 2006-06-01 Mac 2006
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"memory" as if it's "mammary" -- I wonder what his relationship was with his mamma, always a major topic in Country songs.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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"memory" as if it's "mammary" -- I wonder what his relationship was with his mamma, always a major topic in Country songs.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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"memory" as if it's "mammary" -- I wonder what his relationship was with his mamma, always a major topic in Country songs.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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"memory" as if it's "mammary" -- I wonder what his relationship was with his mamma, always a major topic in Country songs.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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