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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

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Etymology

Origin of mamma

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

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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

“And to defend the right of her mamma and papa to do all that they can for her.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

“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

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

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021

“Your mamma too proud for you. What mammy say.”

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Usually a lactating vole showed evidence of only the abdominal mammae having been in use.

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

Stems short, usually globose, and covered with tubercles or mammae, rarely ridged, the apex bearing spiny cushions; flowers mostly in rings round the stem.

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 areoles or tufts on the tops of the mammae are large, and the spines are about seven in number, ½ in. long, and of a tawny-yellow colour.

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

Eleven of these had no embryos, but six have mammae that are still prominent on the dried skins and may have had litters prior to their capture.

From Mammals of the Grand Mesa, Colorado by Sydney Anderson

Another adult female trapped in the same place, July 22, had two pairs of inguinal mammae, but no abdominal mammae were found.

From Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 by L. R. Dice

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