mama

Definitions of mama
  1. noun
    milk-secreting organ of female mammals
    synonyms: teta
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    types:
    mamella
    an udder or breast or teat
    ubre
    mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
    pechos, senos
    either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
    type of:
    glándula exocrina
    a gland that secretes externally through a duct
  2. noun
    informal terms for a mother
    synonyms: mamá
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    type of:
    madre
    a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
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