mammilla

Questions about mammilla

What does mammilla mean?

mammilla means "the small projection of a mammary gland".

How many syllables are in mammilla?

mammilla has 3 syllables and divides as mam-mil-la under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mammilla?

Close synonyms include nipple, mamilla, pap, teat, tit. 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 mammilla a common word?

mammilla is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.