mammillaryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle French mamillaire or directly from Late Latin mammillāris, from mamilla +‎ -aris, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈmamɪləɹi/

形容詞

mammillary (comparative more mammillary, superlative most mammillary)

1. Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
2. Pertaining to the nipples.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2001, page 273:

     On the other hand, no woman who had ever borne a child (even in her own childhood) could be accepted, no matter how free she was of mammilary blemishes.

派生語

関連する語

• mammary
• mammillar
• Mammillaria

名詞

mammillary (plural mammillaries)

1. (geology, speleology) A carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.
2. (anatomy) 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.

参照

• “mammillary”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “mammillary”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.