What is the word that describes the human female breast’s shape?
Phallic is fairly common. Yonic, vulvic, or labial were suggested as antonyms.
What is the word to describe the breast’s shape?
We cover up three areas: the male groin, the female groin, and the female chest. Why are there special words for the first two but not the last one?
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Phallic is fairly common. Yonic, vulvic, or labial were suggested as antonyms.
What is the word to describe the breast’s shape?
We cover up three areas: the male groin, the female groin, and the female chest. Why are there special words for the first two but not the last one?
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Why should every word have an identical set of word forms or equivalents? There's nothing wrong with a breast-shaped dome.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 29 '18 at 20:34
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Don’t you really mean to ask why it is that you don’t know them? :) This is hard for us to answer. I’ve edited your question to be a what question not a why question to make it more answerable.
– tchrist♦
Dec 29 '18 at 21:11
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Is a breast not mammary?
– Andrew Leach♦
Dec 29 '18 at 21:13
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There is no word for the female breast shape because there is no such thing as the female breast shape. Entire scientific careers have been spent on trying to categorize them. That one German guy counted 28. Not variations, top-level categories. Which category exactly are you looking to name? Because he does have a dedicated term for every single one.
– RegDwigнt♦
Dec 30 '18 at 1:20
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@SvenYargs If it’s Greek you want, while mastos (μαστός) is just a single teat, stethos (στῆθος) is the entire bosom in full. There’s also bathukolpian, bathycolpian < βαθύκολπος, both of which already exist—but perhaps you might settle for callistethous for the Bactrian version or callimastian for the dromedary. Speaking of which, Latin and her children have supplied English with a huge whole lot of words about this that nobody has mentioned yet, like mammate, mammeated, mamelonated. Tectonic is quite nice once you strike its spurious letter.:)
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Phallic is fairly common. Yonic, vulvic, or labial were suggested as antonyms.
What is the word to describe the breast’s shape?
We cover up three areas: the male groin, the female groin, and the female chest. Why are there special words for the first two but not the last one?
single-word-requests terminology
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Phallic is fairly common. Yonic, vulvic, or labial were suggested as antonyms.
What is the word to describe the breast’s shape?
We cover up three areas: the male groin, the female groin, and the female chest. Why are there special words for the first two but not the last one?
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Why should every word have an identical set of word forms or equivalents? There's nothing wrong with a breast-shaped dome.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 29 '18 at 20:34
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Don’t you really mean to ask why it is that you don’t know them? :) This is hard for us to answer. I’ve edited your question to be a what question not a why question to make it more answerable.
– tchrist♦
Dec 29 '18 at 21:11
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Is a breast not mammary?
– Andrew Leach♦
Dec 29 '18 at 21:13
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There is no word for the female breast shape because there is no such thing as the female breast shape. Entire scientific careers have been spent on trying to categorize them. That one German guy counted 28. Not variations, top-level categories. Which category exactly are you looking to name? Because he does have a dedicated term for every single one.
– RegDwigнt♦
Dec 30 '18 at 1:20
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@SvenYargs If it’s Greek you want, while mastos (μαστός) is just a single teat, stethos (στῆθος) is the entire bosom in full. There’s also bathukolpian, bathycolpian < βαθύκολπος, both of which already exist—but perhaps you might settle for callistethous for the Bactrian version or callimastian for the dromedary. Speaking of which, Latin and her children have supplied English with a huge whole lot of words about this that nobody has mentioned yet, like mammate, mammeated, mamelonated. Tectonic is quite nice once you strike its spurious letter.:)
– tchrist♦
Dec 30 '18 at 3:34
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Why should every word have an identical set of word forms or equivalents? There's nothing wrong with a breast-shaped dome.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 29 '18 at 20:34
4
Don’t you really mean to ask why it is that you don’t know them? :) This is hard for us to answer. I’ve edited your question to be a what question not a why question to make it more answerable.
– tchrist♦
Dec 29 '18 at 21:11
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Is a breast not mammary?
– Andrew Leach♦
Dec 29 '18 at 21:13
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There is no word for the female breast shape because there is no such thing as the female breast shape. Entire scientific careers have been spent on trying to categorize them. That one German guy counted 28. Not variations, top-level categories. Which category exactly are you looking to name? Because he does have a dedicated term for every single one.
– RegDwigнt♦
Dec 30 '18 at 1:20
2
@SvenYargs If it’s Greek you want, while mastos (μαστός) is just a single teat, stethos (στῆθος) is the entire bosom in full. There’s also bathukolpian, bathycolpian < βαθύκολπος, both of which already exist—but perhaps you might settle for callistethous for the Bactrian version or callimastian for the dromedary. Speaking of which, Latin and her children have supplied English with a huge whole lot of words about this that nobody has mentioned yet, like mammate, mammeated, mamelonated. Tectonic is quite nice once you strike its spurious letter.:)
– tchrist♦
Dec 30 '18 at 3:34
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Why should every word have an identical set of word forms or equivalents? There's nothing wrong with a breast-shaped dome.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 29 '18 at 20:34
Why should every word have an identical set of word forms or equivalents? There's nothing wrong with a breast-shaped dome.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 29 '18 at 20:34
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4
Don’t you really mean to ask why it is that you don’t know them? :) This is hard for us to answer. I’ve edited your question to be a what question not a why question to make it more answerable.
– tchrist♦
Dec 29 '18 at 21:11
Don’t you really mean to ask why it is that you don’t know them? :) This is hard for us to answer. I’ve edited your question to be a what question not a why question to make it more answerable.
– tchrist♦
Dec 29 '18 at 21:11
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Is a breast not mammary?
– Andrew Leach♦
Dec 29 '18 at 21:13
Is a breast not mammary?
– Andrew Leach♦
Dec 29 '18 at 21:13
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20
There is no word for the female breast shape because there is no such thing as the female breast shape. Entire scientific careers have been spent on trying to categorize them. That one German guy counted 28. Not variations, top-level categories. Which category exactly are you looking to name? Because he does have a dedicated term for every single one.
– RegDwigнt♦
Dec 30 '18 at 1:20
There is no word for the female breast shape because there is no such thing as the female breast shape. Entire scientific careers have been spent on trying to categorize them. That one German guy counted 28. Not variations, top-level categories. Which category exactly are you looking to name? Because he does have a dedicated term for every single one.
– RegDwigнt♦
Dec 30 '18 at 1:20
2
2
@SvenYargs If it’s Greek you want, while mastos (μαστός) is just a single teat, stethos (στῆθος) is the entire bosom in full. There’s also bathukolpian, bathycolpian < βαθύκολπος, both of which already exist—but perhaps you might settle for callistethous for the Bactrian version or callimastian for the dromedary. Speaking of which, Latin and her children have supplied English with a huge whole lot of words about this that nobody has mentioned yet, like mammate, mammeated, mamelonated. Tectonic is quite nice once you strike its spurious letter.:)
– tchrist♦
Dec 30 '18 at 3:34
@SvenYargs If it’s Greek you want, while mastos (μαστός) is just a single teat, stethos (στῆθος) is the entire bosom in full. There’s also bathukolpian, bathycolpian < βαθύκολπος, both of which already exist—but perhaps you might settle for callistethous for the Bactrian version or callimastian for the dromedary. Speaking of which, Latin and her children have supplied English with a huge whole lot of words about this that nobody has mentioned yet, like mammate, mammeated, mamelonated. Tectonic is quite nice once you strike its spurious letter.:)
– tchrist♦
Dec 30 '18 at 3:34
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Mammillar and Mamillary are (apparently) used to refer to things that are breast or nipple shaped (but are not breasts or nipples).
The non-OED Oxford dictionaries (for mammillary):
Shaped like or resembling a breast or nipple
The free dictionary (for mammillar):
(Biology) resembling a breast or nipple
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The term you're looking for is breast-shaped.
Examples:
Winter Park may buy breast-shaped building on Lee Road (Orlando Sentinel, 2014)
During the colonial and early American periods, the mountain was known as "Mamelle" mountain. "Mamelle" is a name commonly applied in the French-speaking parts of the world to a breast or any breast-shaped hill. (Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, 2016)
Is the breast-shaped shadow on St. Mary’s Cathedral an accident or a clever prank? (KALW, 2018)
answered Dec 29 '18 at 22:36
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But many mountains that have breast-related names are not shaped remotely like any breast I've ever enountered. For a prime example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton Whoever named that had been a LONG time without female companionship :-)
– jamesqf
Dec 30 '18 at 3:46
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mammiform in British (ˈmæmɪˌfɔːm)
adjective having the shape of a breast
Collins English Dictionary.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/mammiform
answered Dec 30 '18 at 22:45
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most people with a verbal IQ of 125 will not have heard that word before ;-)
– barlop
Dec 31 '18 at 2:12
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@barlop Most of those same people will, however, be able to work out what it means by its components.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 days ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Sure, I didn't say they wouldn't know what it meant, I only said they won't have heard it before. Once they hear it they'll know what it means, and then they may look it up to check that the word really exists!
– barlop
2 days ago
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I would suggest "mammillary", since it appears in the phrase "mammillary body", the usual term for a brain region named for its breast-like shape.
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The trigonometric "sine" function derives its name from the Latin "sinus" meaning "bosom". This is itself a translation of the Arabic word "jaib" (also meaning "bosom"). The use of "jaib" is said to be due to phonetic similarity with the original Sanskrit "jiva" for "chord" transliterated into Arabic as "jiba" or "jb", but this would surely have been reinforced by the breast-like shape of this function.
So, if the sine function is breast-shaped, surely we can say the breast is sine-shaped?
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That would certainly be translinguistically circumlocutory. But you are right, why not? :)
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Mammaries is the plural to describe the breasts as it comes from 17th Century English (from mamma + -ary)
Mammary glands are glands within the breast which hold milk when lactating, and although the word mammary is used in the medical profession to describe breast tissue in both men and women, hense the word mammogram for male breast cancer testing (see here), the word is only used in the generalised sense when talking of female breasts.
ADJECTIVE
Denoting or relating to the human female breasts or the milk-secreting organs of other mammals.
"mammary tumour viruses".
NOUN
informal
A breast.
"Page Three has become synonymous with mammaries".
Pronunciation
mammary /ˈmaməri/
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Websters and Oxford dictionaries both define mound as "A rounded mass projecting from a surface". I would suggest that it is simple, unpretentious,and easily identified as a descriptor of "breast-shaped".
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Following tchrist's comment, if it’s Greek you want, while
mastos (μαστός) is just a single teat
and the source for mastectomy,
stethos (στῆθος)
is the entire bosom in full (source for stethoscope). There’s also
bathukolpian, bathycolpian < βαθύκολπος,
both of which already exist — but perhaps you might settle for
callistethous
for the Bactrian version (patterned after 'callipygian') or
callimastian
for the dromedary. Speaking of which, Latin and her children have supplied English with a huge whole lot of words about this that nobody has mentioned yet, like
mammate, mammeated, mamelonated (for teeth protuberances), mammatous (for clouds).
Or
Tectonic
is quite nice once you strike its spurious letter. Guess which one!
For the record, none of these are really used for the way that you presumably intend, but they surely should (spellcheck barfs over all these suggestions except for 'tectonic')
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The equivalent term you seek is: mammatic "breast-like"
e.g. mammatic clouds
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Can you add a citation? I had trouble finding examples of "mammatic" being used in serious sources, and its formation looks irregular to me. Most Latin nouns ending in -a do not form derived English adjectives in -atic, but rather in -al, -ous, -ate, or -ary. The ending -matic mainly occurs for adjectives related to -ma nouns taken from Greek, like dogma (dogmatic).
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Hi RK, welcome to EL&U. This isn't a bad start, but it's too short: the system has flagged it as "low-quality because of its length and content." An answer on EL&U is expected to be authoritative, detailed, and explain why it is correct. Can I suggest you edit your answer to provide more information - e.g., add a published definition of mammatic (linked to the source) and perhaps a published example of its usage? For further guidance, see How to Answer and take the EL&U Tour :-)
– Chappo
Dec 30 '18 at 23:45
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I presume you're thinking of mammatus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud (I've never heard the shape referred to as mammatic)
– Anthony Geoghegan
Dec 31 '18 at 2:00
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According to Google search, "mammatic clouds" is remarkably rare. Only three people besides you have used it.
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Mammillar and Mamillary are (apparently) used to refer to things that are breast or nipple shaped (but are not breasts or nipples).
The non-OED Oxford dictionaries (for mammillary):
Shaped like or resembling a breast or nipple
The free dictionary (for mammillar):
(Biology) resembling a breast or nipple
add a comment |
Mammillar and Mamillary are (apparently) used to refer to things that are breast or nipple shaped (but are not breasts or nipples).
The non-OED Oxford dictionaries (for mammillary):
Shaped like or resembling a breast or nipple
The free dictionary (for mammillar):
(Biology) resembling a breast or nipple
add a comment |
Mammillar and Mamillary are (apparently) used to refer to things that are breast or nipple shaped (but are not breasts or nipples).
The non-OED Oxford dictionaries (for mammillary):
Shaped like or resembling a breast or nipple
The free dictionary (for mammillar):
(Biology) resembling a breast or nipple
Mammillar and Mamillary are (apparently) used to refer to things that are breast or nipple shaped (but are not breasts or nipples).
The non-OED Oxford dictionaries (for mammillary):
Shaped like or resembling a breast or nipple
The free dictionary (for mammillar):
(Biology) resembling a breast or nipple
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The term you're looking for is breast-shaped.
Examples:
Winter Park may buy breast-shaped building on Lee Road (Orlando Sentinel, 2014)
During the colonial and early American periods, the mountain was known as "Mamelle" mountain. "Mamelle" is a name commonly applied in the French-speaking parts of the world to a breast or any breast-shaped hill. (Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, 2016)
Is the breast-shaped shadow on St. Mary’s Cathedral an accident or a clever prank? (KALW, 2018)
answered Dec 29 '18 at 22:36
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But many mountains that have breast-related names are not shaped remotely like any breast I've ever enountered. For a prime example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton Whoever named that had been a LONG time without female companionship :-)
– jamesqf
Dec 30 '18 at 3:46
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The term you're looking for is breast-shaped.
Examples:
Winter Park may buy breast-shaped building on Lee Road (Orlando Sentinel, 2014)
During the colonial and early American periods, the mountain was known as "Mamelle" mountain. "Mamelle" is a name commonly applied in the French-speaking parts of the world to a breast or any breast-shaped hill. (Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, 2016)
Is the breast-shaped shadow on St. Mary’s Cathedral an accident or a clever prank? (KALW, 2018)
answered Dec 29 '18 at 22:36
augurar
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But many mountains that have breast-related names are not shaped remotely like any breast I've ever enountered. For a prime example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton Whoever named that had been a LONG time without female companionship :-)
– jamesqf
Dec 30 '18 at 3:46
add a comment |
The term you're looking for is breast-shaped.
Examples:
Winter Park may buy breast-shaped building on Lee Road (Orlando Sentinel, 2014)
During the colonial and early American periods, the mountain was known as "Mamelle" mountain. "Mamelle" is a name commonly applied in the French-speaking parts of the world to a breast or any breast-shaped hill. (Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, 2016)
Is the breast-shaped shadow on St. Mary’s Cathedral an accident or a clever prank? (KALW, 2018)
answered Dec 29 '18 at 22:36
augurar
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The term you're looking for is breast-shaped.
Examples:
Winter Park may buy breast-shaped building on Lee Road (Orlando Sentinel, 2014)
During the colonial and early American periods, the mountain was known as "Mamelle" mountain. "Mamelle" is a name commonly applied in the French-speaking parts of the world to a breast or any breast-shaped hill. (Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, 2016)
Is the breast-shaped shadow on St. Mary’s Cathedral an accident or a clever prank? (KALW, 2018)
answered Dec 29 '18 at 22:36
augurar
1,0281716
answered Dec 29 '18 at 22:36
augurar
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answered Dec 29 '18 at 22:36
augurar
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answered Dec 29 '18 at 22:36
augurar
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But many mountains that have breast-related names are not shaped remotely like any breast I've ever enountered. For a prime example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton Whoever named that had been a LONG time without female companionship :-)
– jamesqf
Dec 30 '18 at 3:46
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But many mountains that have breast-related names are not shaped remotely like any breast I've ever enountered. For a prime example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton Whoever named that had been a LONG time without female companionship :-)
– jamesqf
Dec 30 '18 at 3:46
2
2
But many mountains that have breast-related names are not shaped remotely like any breast I've ever enountered. For a prime example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton Whoever named that had been a LONG time without female companionship :-)
– jamesqf
Dec 30 '18 at 3:46
But many mountains that have breast-related names are not shaped remotely like any breast I've ever enountered. For a prime example en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton Whoever named that had been a LONG time without female companionship :-)
– jamesqf
Dec 30 '18 at 3:46
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mammiform in British (ˈmæmɪˌfɔːm)
adjective having the shape of a breast
Collins English Dictionary.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/mammiform
answered Dec 30 '18 at 22:45
chasly from UK
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most people with a verbal IQ of 125 will not have heard that word before ;-)
– barlop
Dec 31 '18 at 2:12
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@barlop Most of those same people will, however, be able to work out what it means by its components.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 days ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Sure, I didn't say they wouldn't know what it meant, I only said they won't have heard it before. Once they hear it they'll know what it means, and then they may look it up to check that the word really exists!
– barlop
2 days ago
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mammiform in British (ˈmæmɪˌfɔːm)
adjective having the shape of a breast
Collins English Dictionary.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/mammiform
answered Dec 30 '18 at 22:45
chasly from UK
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most people with a verbal IQ of 125 will not have heard that word before ;-)
– barlop
Dec 31 '18 at 2:12
2
@barlop Most of those same people will, however, be able to work out what it means by its components.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 days ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Sure, I didn't say they wouldn't know what it meant, I only said they won't have heard it before. Once they hear it they'll know what it means, and then they may look it up to check that the word really exists!
– barlop
2 days ago
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mammiform in British (ˈmæmɪˌfɔːm)
adjective having the shape of a breast
Collins English Dictionary.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/mammiform
answered Dec 30 '18 at 22:45
chasly from UK
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mammiform in British (ˈmæmɪˌfɔːm)
adjective having the shape of a breast
Collins English Dictionary.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/mammiform
answered Dec 30 '18 at 22:45
chasly from UK
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answered Dec 30 '18 at 22:45
chasly from UK
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answered Dec 30 '18 at 22:45
chasly from UK
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answered Dec 30 '18 at 22:45
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most people with a verbal IQ of 125 will not have heard that word before ;-)
– barlop
Dec 31 '18 at 2:12
2
@barlop Most of those same people will, however, be able to work out what it means by its components.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 days ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Sure, I didn't say they wouldn't know what it meant, I only said they won't have heard it before. Once they hear it they'll know what it means, and then they may look it up to check that the word really exists!
– barlop
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most people with a verbal IQ of 125 will not have heard that word before ;-)
– barlop
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@barlop Most of those same people will, however, be able to work out what it means by its components.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 days ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Sure, I didn't say they wouldn't know what it meant, I only said they won't have heard it before. Once they hear it they'll know what it means, and then they may look it up to check that the word really exists!
– barlop
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most people with a verbal IQ of 125 will not have heard that word before ;-)
– barlop
Dec 31 '18 at 2:12
most people with a verbal IQ of 125 will not have heard that word before ;-)
– barlop
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@barlop Most of those same people will, however, be able to work out what it means by its components.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 days ago
@barlop Most of those same people will, however, be able to work out what it means by its components.
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 days ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Sure, I didn't say they wouldn't know what it meant, I only said they won't have heard it before. Once they hear it they'll know what it means, and then they may look it up to check that the word really exists!
– barlop
2 days ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Sure, I didn't say they wouldn't know what it meant, I only said they won't have heard it before. Once they hear it they'll know what it means, and then they may look it up to check that the word really exists!
– barlop
2 days ago
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I would suggest "mammillary", since it appears in the phrase "mammillary body", the usual term for a brain region named for its breast-like shape.
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I would suggest "mammillary", since it appears in the phrase "mammillary body", the usual term for a brain region named for its breast-like shape.
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I would suggest "mammillary", since it appears in the phrase "mammillary body", the usual term for a brain region named for its breast-like shape.
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I would suggest "mammillary", since it appears in the phrase "mammillary body", the usual term for a brain region named for its breast-like shape.
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The trigonometric "sine" function derives its name from the Latin "sinus" meaning "bosom". This is itself a translation of the Arabic word "jaib" (also meaning "bosom"). The use of "jaib" is said to be due to phonetic similarity with the original Sanskrit "jiva" for "chord" transliterated into Arabic as "jiba" or "jb", but this would surely have been reinforced by the breast-like shape of this function.
So, if the sine function is breast-shaped, surely we can say the breast is sine-shaped?
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That would certainly be translinguistically circumlocutory. But you are right, why not? :)
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The trigonometric "sine" function derives its name from the Latin "sinus" meaning "bosom". This is itself a translation of the Arabic word "jaib" (also meaning "bosom"). The use of "jaib" is said to be due to phonetic similarity with the original Sanskrit "jiva" for "chord" transliterated into Arabic as "jiba" or "jb", but this would surely have been reinforced by the breast-like shape of this function.
So, if the sine function is breast-shaped, surely we can say the breast is sine-shaped?
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That would certainly be translinguistically circumlocutory. But you are right, why not? :)
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The trigonometric "sine" function derives its name from the Latin "sinus" meaning "bosom". This is itself a translation of the Arabic word "jaib" (also meaning "bosom"). The use of "jaib" is said to be due to phonetic similarity with the original Sanskrit "jiva" for "chord" transliterated into Arabic as "jiba" or "jb", but this would surely have been reinforced by the breast-like shape of this function.
So, if the sine function is breast-shaped, surely we can say the breast is sine-shaped?
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The trigonometric "sine" function derives its name from the Latin "sinus" meaning "bosom". This is itself a translation of the Arabic word "jaib" (also meaning "bosom"). The use of "jaib" is said to be due to phonetic similarity with the original Sanskrit "jiva" for "chord" transliterated into Arabic as "jiba" or "jb", but this would surely have been reinforced by the breast-like shape of this function.
So, if the sine function is breast-shaped, surely we can say the breast is sine-shaped?
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That would certainly be translinguistically circumlocutory. But you are right, why not? :)
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That would certainly be translinguistically circumlocutory. But you are right, why not? :)
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That would certainly be translinguistically circumlocutory. But you are right, why not? :)
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Mammaries is the plural to describe the breasts as it comes from 17th Century English (from mamma + -ary)
Mammary glands are glands within the breast which hold milk when lactating, and although the word mammary is used in the medical profession to describe breast tissue in both men and women, hense the word mammogram for male breast cancer testing (see here), the word is only used in the generalised sense when talking of female breasts.
ADJECTIVE
Denoting or relating to the human female breasts or the milk-secreting organs of other mammals.
"mammary tumour viruses".
NOUN
informal
A breast.
"Page Three has become synonymous with mammaries".
Pronunciation
mammary /ˈmaməri/
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Mammaries is the plural to describe the breasts as it comes from 17th Century English (from mamma + -ary)
Mammary glands are glands within the breast which hold milk when lactating, and although the word mammary is used in the medical profession to describe breast tissue in both men and women, hense the word mammogram for male breast cancer testing (see here), the word is only used in the generalised sense when talking of female breasts.
ADJECTIVE
Denoting or relating to the human female breasts or the milk-secreting organs of other mammals.
"mammary tumour viruses".
NOUN
informal
A breast.
"Page Three has become synonymous with mammaries".
Pronunciation
mammary /ˈmaməri/
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Mammaries is the plural to describe the breasts as it comes from 17th Century English (from mamma + -ary)
Mammary glands are glands within the breast which hold milk when lactating, and although the word mammary is used in the medical profession to describe breast tissue in both men and women, hense the word mammogram for male breast cancer testing (see here), the word is only used in the generalised sense when talking of female breasts.
ADJECTIVE
Denoting or relating to the human female breasts or the milk-secreting organs of other mammals.
"mammary tumour viruses".
NOUN
informal
A breast.
"Page Three has become synonymous with mammaries".
Pronunciation
mammary /ˈmaməri/
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Mammaries is the plural to describe the breasts as it comes from 17th Century English (from mamma + -ary)
Mammary glands are glands within the breast which hold milk when lactating, and although the word mammary is used in the medical profession to describe breast tissue in both men and women, hense the word mammogram for male breast cancer testing (see here), the word is only used in the generalised sense when talking of female breasts.
ADJECTIVE
Denoting or relating to the human female breasts or the milk-secreting organs of other mammals.
"mammary tumour viruses".
NOUN
informal
A breast.
"Page Three has become synonymous with mammaries".
Pronunciation
mammary /ˈmaməri/
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Websters and Oxford dictionaries both define mound as "A rounded mass projecting from a surface". I would suggest that it is simple, unpretentious,and easily identified as a descriptor of "breast-shaped".
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Websters and Oxford dictionaries both define mound as "A rounded mass projecting from a surface". I would suggest that it is simple, unpretentious,and easily identified as a descriptor of "breast-shaped".
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Websters and Oxford dictionaries both define mound as "A rounded mass projecting from a surface". I would suggest that it is simple, unpretentious,and easily identified as a descriptor of "breast-shaped".
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Websters and Oxford dictionaries both define mound as "A rounded mass projecting from a surface". I would suggest that it is simple, unpretentious,and easily identified as a descriptor of "breast-shaped".
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Following tchrist's comment, if it’s Greek you want, while
mastos (μαστός) is just a single teat
and the source for mastectomy,
stethos (στῆθος)
is the entire bosom in full (source for stethoscope). There’s also
bathukolpian, bathycolpian < βαθύκολπος,
both of which already exist — but perhaps you might settle for
callistethous
for the Bactrian version (patterned after 'callipygian') or
callimastian
for the dromedary. Speaking of which, Latin and her children have supplied English with a huge whole lot of words about this that nobody has mentioned yet, like
mammate, mammeated, mamelonated (for teeth protuberances), mammatous (for clouds).
Or
Tectonic
is quite nice once you strike its spurious letter. Guess which one!
For the record, none of these are really used for the way that you presumably intend, but they surely should (spellcheck barfs over all these suggestions except for 'tectonic')
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Following tchrist's comment, if it’s Greek you want, while
mastos (μαστός) is just a single teat
and the source for mastectomy,
stethos (στῆθος)
is the entire bosom in full (source for stethoscope). There’s also
bathukolpian, bathycolpian < βαθύκολπος,
both of which already exist — but perhaps you might settle for
callistethous
for the Bactrian version (patterned after 'callipygian') or
callimastian
for the dromedary. Speaking of which, Latin and her children have supplied English with a huge whole lot of words about this that nobody has mentioned yet, like
mammate, mammeated, mamelonated (for teeth protuberances), mammatous (for clouds).
Or
Tectonic
is quite nice once you strike its spurious letter. Guess which one!
For the record, none of these are really used for the way that you presumably intend, but they surely should (spellcheck barfs over all these suggestions except for 'tectonic')
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Following tchrist's comment, if it’s Greek you want, while
mastos (μαστός) is just a single teat
and the source for mastectomy,
stethos (στῆθος)
is the entire bosom in full (source for stethoscope). There’s also
bathukolpian, bathycolpian < βαθύκολπος,
both of which already exist — but perhaps you might settle for
callistethous
for the Bactrian version (patterned after 'callipygian') or
callimastian
for the dromedary. Speaking of which, Latin and her children have supplied English with a huge whole lot of words about this that nobody has mentioned yet, like
mammate, mammeated, mamelonated (for teeth protuberances), mammatous (for clouds).
Or
Tectonic
is quite nice once you strike its spurious letter. Guess which one!
For the record, none of these are really used for the way that you presumably intend, but they surely should (spellcheck barfs over all these suggestions except for 'tectonic')
Following tchrist's comment, if it’s Greek you want, while
mastos (μαστός) is just a single teat
and the source for mastectomy,
stethos (στῆθος)
is the entire bosom in full (source for stethoscope). There’s also
bathukolpian, bathycolpian < βαθύκολπος,
both of which already exist — but perhaps you might settle for
callistethous
for the Bactrian version (patterned after 'callipygian') or
callimastian
for the dromedary. Speaking of which, Latin and her children have supplied English with a huge whole lot of words about this that nobody has mentioned yet, like
mammate, mammeated, mamelonated (for teeth protuberances), mammatous (for clouds).
Or
Tectonic
is quite nice once you strike its spurious letter. Guess which one!
For the record, none of these are really used for the way that you presumably intend, but they surely should (spellcheck barfs over all these suggestions except for 'tectonic')
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The equivalent term you seek is: mammatic "breast-like"
e.g. mammatic clouds
answered Dec 30 '18 at 1:11
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Can you add a citation? I had trouble finding examples of "mammatic" being used in serious sources, and its formation looks irregular to me. Most Latin nouns ending in -a do not form derived English adjectives in -atic, but rather in -al, -ous, -ate, or -ary. The ending -matic mainly occurs for adjectives related to -ma nouns taken from Greek, like dogma (dogmatic).
– sumelic
Dec 30 '18 at 7:54
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Hi RK, welcome to EL&U. This isn't a bad start, but it's too short: the system has flagged it as "low-quality because of its length and content." An answer on EL&U is expected to be authoritative, detailed, and explain why it is correct. Can I suggest you edit your answer to provide more information - e.g., add a published definition of mammatic (linked to the source) and perhaps a published example of its usage? For further guidance, see How to Answer and take the EL&U Tour :-)
– Chappo
Dec 30 '18 at 23:45
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I presume you're thinking of mammatus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud (I've never heard the shape referred to as mammatic)
– Anthony Geoghegan
Dec 31 '18 at 2:00
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According to Google search, "mammatic clouds" is remarkably rare. Only three people besides you have used it.
– MetaEd♦
2 days ago
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The equivalent term you seek is: mammatic "breast-like"
e.g. mammatic clouds
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Can you add a citation? I had trouble finding examples of "mammatic" being used in serious sources, and its formation looks irregular to me. Most Latin nouns ending in -a do not form derived English adjectives in -atic, but rather in -al, -ous, -ate, or -ary. The ending -matic mainly occurs for adjectives related to -ma nouns taken from Greek, like dogma (dogmatic).
– sumelic
Dec 30 '18 at 7:54
1
Hi RK, welcome to EL&U. This isn't a bad start, but it's too short: the system has flagged it as "low-quality because of its length and content." An answer on EL&U is expected to be authoritative, detailed, and explain why it is correct. Can I suggest you edit your answer to provide more information - e.g., add a published definition of mammatic (linked to the source) and perhaps a published example of its usage? For further guidance, see How to Answer and take the EL&U Tour :-)
– Chappo
Dec 30 '18 at 23:45
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I presume you're thinking of mammatus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud (I've never heard the shape referred to as mammatic)
– Anthony Geoghegan
Dec 31 '18 at 2:00
2
According to Google search, "mammatic clouds" is remarkably rare. Only three people besides you have used it.
– MetaEd♦
2 days ago
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The equivalent term you seek is: mammatic "breast-like"
e.g. mammatic clouds
answered Dec 30 '18 at 1:11
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The equivalent term you seek is: mammatic "breast-like"
e.g. mammatic clouds
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Can you add a citation? I had trouble finding examples of "mammatic" being used in serious sources, and its formation looks irregular to me. Most Latin nouns ending in -a do not form derived English adjectives in -atic, but rather in -al, -ous, -ate, or -ary. The ending -matic mainly occurs for adjectives related to -ma nouns taken from Greek, like dogma (dogmatic).
– sumelic
Dec 30 '18 at 7:54
1
Hi RK, welcome to EL&U. This isn't a bad start, but it's too short: the system has flagged it as "low-quality because of its length and content." An answer on EL&U is expected to be authoritative, detailed, and explain why it is correct. Can I suggest you edit your answer to provide more information - e.g., add a published definition of mammatic (linked to the source) and perhaps a published example of its usage? For further guidance, see How to Answer and take the EL&U Tour :-)
– Chappo
Dec 30 '18 at 23:45
4
I presume you're thinking of mammatus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud (I've never heard the shape referred to as mammatic)
– Anthony Geoghegan
Dec 31 '18 at 2:00
2
According to Google search, "mammatic clouds" is remarkably rare. Only three people besides you have used it.
– MetaEd♦
2 days ago
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4
Can you add a citation? I had trouble finding examples of "mammatic" being used in serious sources, and its formation looks irregular to me. Most Latin nouns ending in -a do not form derived English adjectives in -atic, but rather in -al, -ous, -ate, or -ary. The ending -matic mainly occurs for adjectives related to -ma nouns taken from Greek, like dogma (dogmatic).
– sumelic
Dec 30 '18 at 7:54
1
Hi RK, welcome to EL&U. This isn't a bad start, but it's too short: the system has flagged it as "low-quality because of its length and content." An answer on EL&U is expected to be authoritative, detailed, and explain why it is correct. Can I suggest you edit your answer to provide more information - e.g., add a published definition of mammatic (linked to the source) and perhaps a published example of its usage? For further guidance, see How to Answer and take the EL&U Tour :-)
– Chappo
Dec 30 '18 at 23:45
4
I presume you're thinking of mammatus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud (I've never heard the shape referred to as mammatic)
– Anthony Geoghegan
Dec 31 '18 at 2:00
2
According to Google search, "mammatic clouds" is remarkably rare. Only three people besides you have used it.
– MetaEd♦
2 days ago
4
4
Can you add a citation? I had trouble finding examples of "mammatic" being used in serious sources, and its formation looks irregular to me. Most Latin nouns ending in -a do not form derived English adjectives in -atic, but rather in -al, -ous, -ate, or -ary. The ending -matic mainly occurs for adjectives related to -ma nouns taken from Greek, like dogma (dogmatic).
– sumelic
Dec 30 '18 at 7:54
Can you add a citation? I had trouble finding examples of "mammatic" being used in serious sources, and its formation looks irregular to me. Most Latin nouns ending in -a do not form derived English adjectives in -atic, but rather in -al, -ous, -ate, or -ary. The ending -matic mainly occurs for adjectives related to -ma nouns taken from Greek, like dogma (dogmatic).
– sumelic
Dec 30 '18 at 7:54
1
1
Hi RK, welcome to EL&U. This isn't a bad start, but it's too short: the system has flagged it as "low-quality because of its length and content." An answer on EL&U is expected to be authoritative, detailed, and explain why it is correct. Can I suggest you edit your answer to provide more information - e.g., add a published definition of mammatic (linked to the source) and perhaps a published example of its usage? For further guidance, see How to Answer and take the EL&U Tour :-)
– Chappo
Dec 30 '18 at 23:45
Hi RK, welcome to EL&U. This isn't a bad start, but it's too short: the system has flagged it as "low-quality because of its length and content." An answer on EL&U is expected to be authoritative, detailed, and explain why it is correct. Can I suggest you edit your answer to provide more information - e.g., add a published definition of mammatic (linked to the source) and perhaps a published example of its usage? For further guidance, see How to Answer and take the EL&U Tour :-)
– Chappo
Dec 30 '18 at 23:45
4
4
I presume you're thinking of mammatus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud (I've never heard the shape referred to as mammatic)
– Anthony Geoghegan
Dec 31 '18 at 2:00
I presume you're thinking of mammatus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammatus_cloud (I've never heard the shape referred to as mammatic)
– Anthony Geoghegan
Dec 31 '18 at 2:00
2
2
According to Google search, "mammatic clouds" is remarkably rare. Only three people besides you have used it.
– MetaEd♦
2 days ago
According to Google search, "mammatic clouds" is remarkably rare. Only three people besides you have used it.
– MetaEd♦
2 days ago
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Why should every word have an identical set of word forms or equivalents? There's nothing wrong with a breast-shaped dome.
– Jason Bassford
Dec 29 '18 at 20:34
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Don’t you really mean to ask why it is that you don’t know them? :) This is hard for us to answer. I’ve edited your question to be a what question not a why question to make it more answerable.
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Is a breast not mammary?
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There is no word for the female breast shape because there is no such thing as the female breast shape. Entire scientific careers have been spent on trying to categorize them. That one German guy counted 28. Not variations, top-level categories. Which category exactly are you looking to name? Because he does have a dedicated term for every single one.
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Dec 30 '18 at 1:20
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@SvenYargs If it’s Greek you want, while mastos (μαστός) is just a single teat, stethos (στῆθος) is the entire bosom in full. There’s also bathukolpian, bathycolpian < βαθύκολπος, both of which already exist—but perhaps you might settle for callistethous for the Bactrian version or callimastian for the dromedary. Speaking of which, Latin and her children have supplied English with a huge whole lot of words about this that nobody has mentioned yet, like mammate, mammeated, mamelonated. Tectonic is quite nice once you strike its spurious letter.:)
– tchrist♦
Dec 30 '18 at 3:34