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Definition of Mammillaria
1. Noun. Any cactus of the genus Mammillaria.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mammillaria
Literary usage of Mammillaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy of the brain and spinal cord with special reference to mechanism and by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"... substance on each side of it; and, behind, the corpora mammillaria mark the
boundary between it and the posterior perforated substance of the mid-brain. ..."
2. The Gross and Minute Anatomy of the Central Nervous System by Herman Camp Grodinier, H. C. Cordinier (1899)
"... PINEAL GLAND, CORPORA mammillaria, AND OPTIC CHIASM. The first primitive
cerebral vesicle, or fore-brain, owing to the development by a process of ..."
3. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1922)
"Mr. Charles Wright, in his field notes, first called attention to the central
position of the flower of mammillaria micromeris, and Engelmann, who discussed ..."
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