Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MAM'MIL-LA-RY
MAM'MIL-LA-RY, a. [L. mamilla.]
- Pertaining to the paps; resembling a pap; an epithet applied to two small protuberances, like nipples, found under the fore ventricles of the brain, and to a process of the temporal bone.
- In mineralogy, applied to minerals composed of convex concretions.
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