OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12282

teat

/tiːt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
chupete • pezón • tete • tetina
The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.
Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincer…
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