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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mamma \Mam"ma\, n.; pl. Mamm[ae]. [L. mamma breast.] (Anat.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; udder; bag.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of mamma English)
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Usage examples of "mammae".
Although with out mammae, naturalists are obliged to place it in the class of mammiferae.
For instance, rudimentary mammae are very general in the males of mammals: I presume that the `bastard-wing' in birds may be safely considered as a digit in a rudimentary state: in very many snakes one lobe of the lungs is rudimentary.
Rudimentary organs sometimes retain their potentiality, and are merely not developed: this seems to be the case with the mammae of male mammals, for many instances are on record of these organs having become well developed in full-grown males, and having secreted milk.
Two mammals still live which lay eggs and which have not proper mammae, though they nourish their young by a nutritive secretion of the under skin.