† mammularadj.
Biology and Medicine. Obsolete.
Shaped like a small breast; of the nature of a mammula.
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mammillary1615
mammiform1699
mammoid1774
mammillate1826
mammular1826
mammillated1839
mammilliform1843
mammulose1889
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [adjective] > rounded projection
nodous1646
tuberous1650
papillar1651
verrucous1656
capitate1661
clavate1661
papillary1667
warty1693
tuberculated1696
papillous1718
tubercular1719
clavated1728
tuberculous1732
mammillated1744
tubercled1746
papillose1752
torulous1752
tuberculose1752
tuberculate1777
tubercle-like1792
mastoid1800
tuberculiferous1802
ventricose1804
torulose1806
papillated?a1808
tuberculiform1817
bullated1822
nodulous1822
tuberiform1822
nodulated1824
papilliform1824
mammular1826
papilliferous1826
nodulose1828
knuckled1842
mamelonated1843
tuberculoid1853
papillate1857
mammilloid1859
tuberculosquamous1866
bosselated1873
papulate1876
bulbar1878
tubero-cystic1879
mammulose1889
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxix. 155 The grub of a beetle..whose body is margined on each side by eight triangular fleshy mammular processes.
1847 Retrospect Pract. Med. & Surg. (U.S. ed.) 14 43 Those sputa consist of opaque mammular masses of a grayish colour which float in a quantity of liquid.
1879 tr. E. Boudier in Grevillea Sept. 46 It [sc. the operculum] is mammular in the centre.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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