mammae

This is why "mammae" and Mama are such similar words and why the entire category of animals is called mammals.

Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com 2008

In the mammalia, for instance, the males possess rudimentary mammae; in snakes one lobe of the lungs is rudimentary; in birds the

Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Rudimentary organs sometimes retain their potentiality: this occasionally occurs with the mammae of male mammals, which have been known to become well developed and to secrete milk.

Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Note 124: Must., p. 31, chap. 88: "Materno lacte nutriendus est infans an mammae?"

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

At any rate, they usually don't gush over the glories of mammae.

Doctor, how should Douglas Hoffman 2005

But, unlike the cow, the dugong has two pectoral mammae instead of an abdominal udder, and like the whale is unable to turn its head, the vertebrae of the neck being, if not fused into one mass, at least compressed into a small space.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The exposure of the upper person shows the size and tumidity of the areola, even in young girls; being unsupported, the mammae soon become flaccid.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Mr C.W. de Vis, M.A., of the Queensland Museum, who has considerately examined specimens of this rat, pronounces it to be extraordinary, in that it combines types of three genera — the teeth of the mus, the mammae of the mastacomys and the scales on the tail of the genus UROMYS.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

And such is the position of the mammae in each kind of animals for both causes; it is so both for the sake of what is best and of necessity.

On the Generation of Animals 2002

This change in the voice and the parts about the mammae is plain even in other creatures to those who have experience of each kind of animal, but is most remarkable in man.

On the Generation of Animals 2002