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‖ mamilla|mæˈmɪlə|
Also 7–9 mammilla.
[L., dim. of mamma breast, teat.]
1. The nipple of the female breast; also, the male ‘mamma’.
1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Mammilla. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Mammilla, a little Breast, Tet, or Dug. 1889Syd. Soc. Lex., Mammilla,..the nipple of the mammary gland. Also, the male breast, or mammary gland.
2. transf. (Anat., Bot., etc.) Any nipple-shaped organ or protuberance; a papilla.
1818Kirby & Sp. Entomol. II. 279 In these apodous walkers the place of legs is supplied by fleshy and often retractile mamillæ or tubercles. 1828R. Knox tr. Cloquet's Anat. 454 There occurs on the surface of the brain..a sort of whitish mammilla, which seemed to be concealed in the interior of the nerve. 1843J. G. Wilkinson tr. Swedenborg's Anim. Kingd. I. i. 21 Glandular mammillæ or papillæ. 1866Treas. Bot. 714/2 (Mamillaria) The mamillæ..have little tufts of white hair between them. 1852Henslow Dict. Bot. Terms, Mamilla (a little teat). Little granular prominences on the surface of certain pollen. 1889Baron in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XLV. 322 The crystals of others [sc. stones] assume a mamillated form, the mamillæ being covered with minute crystals. 1889Syd. Soc. Lex., Mammillæ,..applied to the conical or cylindrical organs of the Arachnida,..Also, the papillæ or apices of the Malpighian pyramids in the kidney. |