mamma
The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary…The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
» Why, you told mamma this morning that you were going to bring a ‘muttonhead’ home for dinner this evening.
Meaning
2 sensesThe milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
моло́чная железа́molóčnaja železá
milk-secreting organ of female mammals
An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.
Examples
4 sentencesWhy, you told mamma this morning that you were going to bring a ‘muttonhead’ home for dinner this evening.
And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap.
Your mamma's so fat, she'd break London Bridge.
Mamma Leone’s, in New York, helped bring Italian cuisine to the American masses.
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin mamma.Learned borrowing from Latin mamma.
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Forms
plural: mammae / mammasSynonyms
10 synonymsWord family
20 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular