Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
polymastia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The condition of having more than two mammæ, or breasts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The condition of having more than two mammæ, or
breasts .
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Examples
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This polymastism points back to an older stem-form.
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The phylogenetic explanation of polymastism, as given in comparative anatomy, has lately found considerable support in ontogeny.
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