Explore Mammary through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like exocrine. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Mammary in a sentence
Mammary meaning
Of or relating to the mamma or breast (of a woman or a female animal).
Synonyms of Mammary
Using Mammary
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to the mamma or breast (of a woman or a female animal).
- Useful related words include: exocrine gland, exocrine, duct gland.
- In the example corpus, mammary often appears in combinations such as: mammary glands, have mammary, the mammary.
Context around Mammary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mammary
- In this selection, "mammary" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, spontaneous, mammoth, glands, gland and carcinomas stand out and add context to how "mammary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include by the mammary gland is and course have mammary glands used. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mammary" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mammary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The man-made mammary glands I find disturbing, personally. (9 words)
Personally, I prefer perky, peach-sized boobs over a more mammoth mammary. (12 words)
The mammary glands and genitals of pinnipeds can retract into the body. (12 words)
The young lick the milk from a mammary patch on the mother's belly. citation Viviparous mammals are in the subclass Theria; those living today are in the marsupial and placental infraclasses. (32 words)
Dolly was named after performer Dolly Parton because the cells cloned to make her were from a mammary gland cell, and Parton is known for her ample cleavage. (28 words)
Being mammals, the females have mammary glands used for nursing calves; to feed the new-born calf, the mother must squirt the milk into its mouth. (26 words)
Example sentences (14)
Karin U. Sorenmo et al, The estrogen effect; clinical and histopathological evidence of dichotomous influences in dogs with spontaneous mammary carcinomas, DOI: 10.1371/journal.
Personally, I prefer perky, peach-sized boobs over a more mammoth mammary.
The man-made mammary glands I find disturbing, personally.
Being mammals, the females have mammary glands used for nursing calves; to feed the new-born calf, the mother must squirt the milk into its mouth.
Being mammals, they, of course, have mammary glands used for nursing calves; they are weaned off at about 11 months of age.
Dolly was named after performer Dolly Parton because the cells cloned to make her were from a mammary gland cell, and Parton is known for her ample cleavage.
High iodide-concentration by the mammary gland is evident only in pregnancy and lactation.
In human lactation, glucose is changed into galactose via hexoneogenesis to enable the mammary glands to secrete lactose.
The action of iodine in mammary tissue is related to fetal and neonatal development, but in the other tissues, it is (at least) partially unknown.
The female's mammary glands occupy the space between the front legs, which puts the suckling calf within reach of the female's trunk.
The mammary glands and genitals of pinnipeds can retract into the body.
The monotremes branched early from other mammals and do not have the nipples seen in most mammals, but they do have mammary glands.
The uterus has two horns (uterus bicornis). citation The number of mammary glands is variable and correlates, as in all mammals, with the litter size.
The young lick the milk from a mammary patch on the mother's belly. citation Viviparous mammals are in the subclass Theria; those living today are in the marsupial and placental infraclasses.
Common combinations with mammary
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: