MAMMA (mammae)

Pronunciation (US):

• MAMMA (noun)
  The noun MAMMA has 2 senses:

1. informal terms for a mother
2. milk-secreting organ of female mammals

  Familiarity information: MAMMA used as a noun is rare.

• MAMMA (noun)

Meaning:

Informal terms for a mother

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

mommy; momma; mom; mummy; mamma; mama; ma; mum; mammy

Hypernyms ("mamma" is a kind of...):

female parent; mother (a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother))

Meaning:

Milk-secreting organ of female mammals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

mammary gland; mamma

Hypernyms ("mamma" is a kind of...):

duct gland; exocrine; exocrine gland (a gland that secretes externally through a duct)

Meronyms (parts of "mamma"):

mamilla; mammilla; nipple; pap; teat; tit (the small projection of a mammary gland)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mamma"):

dug (an udder or breast or teat)

bag; udder (mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats))

boob; bosom; breast; knocker; tit; titty (either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman)

Holonyms ("mamma" is a part of...):

female mammal (animals that nourish their young with milk)