LACTIFEROUS DUCT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ducts of the mammary gland that carry milk to the nipple

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("lactiferous duct" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

Holonyms ("lactiferous duct" is a part of...):

boob; bosom; breast; knocker; tit; titty (either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman)

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