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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mammary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mammary gland
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gland
▪ Thus elm trees clone themselves to form entire copses, and we cloned Dolly from cultured mammary gland cells.
▪ Thus the beta-lactoglobulin gene is expressed only in the mammary gland, and only during lactation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An interesting consequence of this process is that the mice are then resistant to infection with exogenous mammary tumour viruses.
▪ Never in this century at least had so much respect been paid to mammary development.
▪ Thus elm trees clone themselves to form entire copses, and we cloned Dolly from cultured mammary gland cells.
▪ Thus the beta-lactoglobulin gene is expressed only in the mammary gland, and only during lactation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mammary

Mammary \Mam"ma*ry\, a. [Cf. F. mammaire.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mamm[ae] or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mammary

1680s, from French mammaire (18c.), from Latin mamma "breast," probably from the child's word for "mother" (see mamma).

Wiktionary
mammary

a. (context biology English) Of or relating to mamma or breast (of a woman or a female animal). n. A mamma (milk-secreting organ of a woman or a female animal).

WordNet
mammary

adj. of or relating to the milk-giving gland of the female

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "mammary".

Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, took a donor cell from the mammary gland of a six-year-old ewe and put it into an enucleated unfertilized egg.

He unbuttoned successively in reversed direction waistcoat, trousers, shirt and vest along the medial line of irregular incrispated black hairs extending in triangular convergence from the pelvic basin over the circumference of the abdomen and umbilicular fossicle along the medial line of nodes to the intersection of the sixth pectoral vertebrae, thence produced both ways at right angles and terminating in circles described about two equidistant points, right and left, on the summits of the mammary prominences.

And as my body grew into young manhood, lean-muscled, hard, slim and cool and handsome as any hip-hop nigga sucking magic money from the musical mammary, as I grew bigger and wiser and stronger with each passing day and year, my heart cold and smoking like dry ice, as the factory pumped out hard young muhfukkahs, cold and perfect as snowflakes-some graduating to the streets where they lived like kings or died like flies, some shipped off to adult institutions-and as the younger boys took their place in the food chain, I gained power, I took control.

And as my body grew into young manhood, lean-muscled, hard, slim and cool and handsome as any hip-hop nigga sucking magic money from the musical mammary, as I grew bigger and wiser and stronger with each passing day and year, my heart cold and smoking like dry ice, as the factory pumped out hard young muhfukkahs, cold and perfect as snowflakessome graduating to the streets where they lived like kings or died like flies, some shipped off to adult institutionsand as the younger boys took their place in the food chain, I gained power, I took control.

Animal species differ greatly in how the sexes differ, and not only in mammary gland development.

Although de Sinety, as shown above, had practised the ablation of the mammary glands during lactation, it would seem that mutilation rather than complete ablation preceded his experiments on the innervation of the mammary nerve.

And he hated and mocked him for his gynecoid upper body with its swag of dangling mammaries under the sheer white shirt.

Alex assumed the fishtailed Hoka females to be mermaids, though the four mammaries were so prominent as to suggest ramming was still standard naval practice.

There was plentiful milk for them, because Romee and her chimo Pipak enjoyed the secondary sex act frequently, keeping Pipak's mammaries well stimulated.

These are almost gone now, I hear, the way of the Edsel, the klepsydra and the button hook, shot down and punctured by the safety pill, which makes for larger mammaries, too, so who complains?

And as my body grew into young manhood, lean-muscled, hard, slim and cool and handsome as any hip-hop nigga sucking magic money from the musical mammary, as I grew bigger and wiser and stronger with each passing day and year, my heart cold and smoking like dry ice, as the factory pumped out hard young muhfukkahs, cold and perfect as snowflakessome graduating to the streets where they lived like kings or died like flies, some shipped off to adult institutionsand as the younger boys took their place in the food chain, I gained power, I took control.

She hardly noticed their lack of mammary glands or external genitalia.

Moreover, Pauline had also told her that she would, sooner or later, be strapped to the breast bench in the so-called torture closet or sanctum to have her mammaries flogged and wrenched - something the young conventual admitted she had never experienced, hers being of modest size.

Some viruses, such as MMTV or mouse mammary tumor virus, seem to be able to choose whether to insert or not insert their genetic code into host DNA.

Hormones released in pregnant and lactating females produce a further mammary growth spurt and start milk production, which is then reflexly stimulated by nursing.