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The nipple.

Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.

Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammæ.

ving resamblance to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of minerals are imitative. -- Im"i*ta*tive*ly, adv. -- Im"i*ta*tive*ness, n.

Hydrous sesquixoide of iron, an important ore of iron, occurring in stalactitic, mammillary, or earthy forms, of a dark brown color, yellowish brown powder. It includes bog iron. Also called brown hematite.

Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.

See Mammillated.

Having the form of a mammilla.

Like a mammilla or nipple; mammilliform.

A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebræ; a mammillary process.

The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

A nipple; a mammilla; a teat. Dryden. The paps which thou hast sucked. Luke xi. 27.

A pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

ance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.