mammillary

  1. Adjective.  Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
  2. Adjective.  Pertaining to the nipples.
  3. Noun.  (geology, speleology) A carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.
  4. Noun.  (anatomy) A mammillary body, one of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the brain, that form part of the limbic system.

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