Word Meanings - MAMMARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the mammæ or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins.

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• MAMMARY
  Of or pertaining to the mammæ or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• VEINSTONE
  The nonmetalliferous mineral or rock material which accompanies the ores in a vein, as quartz, calcite, barite, fluor spar, etc.; -- called also veinstuff.
• BREASTSUMMER
  A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long
• SUBMAMMARY
  Situated under the mammæ; as, submammary inflammation.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach