Meaning

2 senses
  1. The 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

  2. An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Why, you told mamma this morning that you were going to bring a ‘muttonhead’ home for dinner this evening.

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  2. And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap.

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  3. Your mamma's so fat, she'd break London Bridge.

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  4. Mamma Leone’s, in New York, helped bring Italian cuisine to the American masses.

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Translations

4 languages
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By meaning 1
milk-secreting organ:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Latin mamma.

Learned borrowing from Latin mamma.

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Forms

plural: mammae / mammas
Singularmamma
Pluralmammae / mammas

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

20 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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