mammary gland

Questions about mammary gland

What does mammary gland mean?

mammary gland means "milk-secreting organ of female mammals".

What is another word for mammary gland?

Close synonyms include mamma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mammary gland a common word?

mammary gland is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.