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Mammillary   Listen
adjective
Mammillary  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.
2.
(Min.) Composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances.





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... by a kind of columnar structure, exhibiting a fascicle of small prisms; and some of these prisms ending sooner than others, give a broken termination of great beauty, similar to our form of the emblem of 'the order of the star.' The rosettes formed by a mammillary disk surrounded by a circle of leaves, rolled elegantly outward, are from four inches to a foot in diameter. Tortuous vines, throwing off curled leaves at every flexure, like the branches of a chandelier, running ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various


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