Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a teat; mammilliform; mastoid: as, a teat-like formation of bone.
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Examples
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Near the center was a teat-like projection; the ground directly underneath burbled with molten rock.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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Between these cardinal tubes were several teat-like points, much smaller, but having a similar function.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various
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Mexican, with a few Brazilian and West Indian, is called nipple cactus, and consists of globular or cylindrical succulent plants, whose surface instead of being cut up into ridges with alternate furrows, as in _Melocactus_, is broken up into teat-like cylindrical or angular tubercles, spirally arranged, and terminating in a radiating tuft of spines which spring from a little woolly cushion.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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We've burrowed down into minutiae: politics, fashion, reality shows, talk shows, pundits, gossip -- all delivered passively via teat-like media.
OpEdNews 2010
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