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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mamillary /ˈmamɪləri/ (also mammillary)

▶adjective

1 (of minerals) having several smoothly rounded convex surfaces.

2 Anatomy denoting two rounded bodies in the floor of the hypothalamus in the brain.

– origin C17: from mod. L. mamillaris, from mamilla (see mamilla).

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