mammillaria

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From the genus name.

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mammillaria (plural mammillarias)

  1. (botany) Any member of the cactus genus Mammillaria.
    • 1841, John Claudius Loudon, The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement, volume 7, page 511:
      For some years back collections of mammillarias, from whatever parts of the world they came, were grown in our hothouses, and many of them are still kept there.