mammillary

Meanings

Adjective

• Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
• Pertaining to the nipples.

Noun

• A carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.
• A mammillary body, one of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the brain, that form part of the limbic system.

Origin

• From Middle French mamillaire, or its source, Late Latin mamillaris.