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mammosus

mammosus · adj

having large breasts, full-breasted

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Where it lives

Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

mammōsus — Lewis & Short

mammōsus, a, um, adj.mamma,

I having large breasts, full-breasted.

I Lit.: non mammosa, non annosa, non bibosa, Laber. ap. Gell. 3, 12.—Of animals: canes feminae, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 5.—

II Transf., full, protuberant: pira, Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 54: genus panici, id. 18, 7, 10, § 54: tus, cluster-shaped, in which one drop adheres to the other, id. 12, 14, 32, § 61.

In the wild

mammosa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.7.p5
mammoso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.14.p3
mammosa Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1168
Mammosas Martial, Epigrammata 14.149.1
Mammosam Martial, Epigrammata 2.52.2
mammosa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.15.p1

Where it came from

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