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mammary gland

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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ˈmammary ˌgland noun [countable]  technicalHBHHBA the part of a woman’s breast that produces milk, or a similar part of a female animal 乳腺
Examples from the Corpus
mammary glandThus elm trees clone themselves to form entire copses, and we cloned Dolly from cultured mammary gland cells.Thus the beta-lactoglobulin gene is expressed only in the mammary gland, and only during lactation.
ˈmammary ˌgland nounChineseSyllable
of a woman’s the Corpus that breast part


mammary gland
ˈmammary ˌgland noun [countable]
technical the part of a woman’s breast that produces milk, or a similar part of a female animal