different between mammillaria vs mammillary

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From the genus name.

mammillaria (plural mammillarias)

(botany) Any member of the cactus genus Mammillaria.
- 1841, John Claudius Loudon, The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (volume 7, page 511)
  For some years back collections of mammillarias, from whatever parts of the world they came, were grown in our hothouses, and many of them are still kept there.

From Middle French mamillaire, or its source, Late Latin mamillaris.

mammillary (comparative more mammillary, superlative most mammillary)

Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
Pertaining to the nipples.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2001, p. 273:
  On the other hand, no woman who had ever borne a child (even in her own childhood) could be accepted, no matter how free she was of mammilary blemishes.

mammillary (plural mammillaries)

(geology, speleology) A carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.
(anatomy) A mammillary body, one of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the brain, that form part of the limbic system.

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