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• a variation of mama.

mamma

¹ American  

[mah-muh, muh-mah] / ˈmɑ mə, məˈmɑ /

noun

1. mama.

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mamma ² American  

[mam-uh] / ˈmæm ə /

noun

• mammae
  plural

1. Anatomy, Zoology. a structure, characteristic of mammals, that comprises one or more mammary glands with an associated nipple or teat, usually rudimentary unless developed and activated for the secretion of milk in the female after the birth of young.

2. Meteorology. the hanging protuberances of a mammatus, on the undersurface of a thunderstorm cloud.

   The mamma in this formation are distinctly ominous.

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mamma ¹ British  

noun

1. Also: momma. another word for mother 1

2. informal a buxom and voluptuous woman

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mamma ² British  

/ ˈmæmə /

noun

1. the milk-secreting organ of female mammals: the breast in women, the udder in cows, sheep, etc

2. (functioning as plural) breast-shaped protuberances, esp from the base of cumulonimbus clouds

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• mammae
  plural

Etymology

Origin of mamma

First recorded before 1050; Middle English, from Latin: “breast, teat” (whence Old English mamme “teat”); see mamma ¹

Example Sentences

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The mamma centipede may have a face like a David Cronenberg nightmare, but she's a devoted parent, curling around the wriggly bits of multi-legged spaghetti she calls her offspring to protect them.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

“No mamma must be forced to interrupt nursing to return to work, no women should be denied this possibility,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 7, 2023

Proud mamma Kris Jenner filming the entire show on her phone.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2022

A four-year-old girl walks into the centre and calls Ms Egbon "mamma", while her mother waits outside.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021

Logan was accusing her of her mamma, her grandmama and her feel-ings, and she couldn’t do a thing about any of it.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

In the prairie vole one pair of mammae is pectoral and two pairs are abdominal.

From Natural History of the Prairie Vole (Mammalian Genus Microtus) [KU. Vol. 1 No. 7] by E. W. Jameson

The stem is ridged with rows of fleshy mammae or tubercles, which are curiously humped, and each bears a cluster of spreading, brown spines, 1 in. long.

From Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation by W. Watson

The left leg was shorter than the right and congenitally smaller; the mammae were of normal dimensions.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

Adult females collected on June 20 and July 7 had enlarged mammae but were no longer lactating.

From Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota by Kenneth W. Andersen

Apodemus gurkha Thomas, 1924, from Nepal is said to have 2-2=8 mammae but the description is not otherwise suggestive of close relationship to peninsulae.

From Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Apodemus peninsulae, with Description of a New Subspecies from North China by J. Knox Jones