mamilla US mammilla noun plural -lae (-liː)
- a nipple or teat
- any nipple-shaped part or prominence
Derived Formsmamillary or US mammillary, adjectiveWord Origin for mamilla C17: from Latin, diminutive of mamma breast Examples from the Web for mamilla Contemporary Examples of mamilla
Yet they were going dig up all the remains on the actual Mamilla Cemetery itself in order to build a commercial business center.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Final Response
Avra Shapiro
May 2, 2012
Our Museum of Tolerance was never going to be built on the actual Mamilla cemetery.
The SWC’s Second Response to Rashid Khalidi
April 23, 2012
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is planning to build a Museum of Tolerance on the Muslim Mamilla cemetery.
Rashid Khalidi
April 10, 2012
Historical Examples of mamilla
This animal is viviparous, and suckles its young by the mamilla, like quadrupeds, and its flesh is firm and muscular.
Buffon’s Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)
Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
mamilla in Medicine mamilla [mă-mĭl′ə] n. pl. ma•mil•lae (-mĭl′ē)
- A small rounded elevation resembling the female breast.
- nipple