TEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teat mean? 

• TEAT (noun)
  The noun TEAT has 1 sense:

1. the small projection of a mammary gland

  Familiarity information: TEAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The small projection of a mammary gland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

mamilla; mammilla; nipple; pap; teat; tit

Hypernyms ("teat" is a kind of...):

reproductive organ; sex organ (any organ involved in sexual reproduction)

Holonyms ("teat" is a part of...):

mamma; mammary gland (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)

 Context examples 

E. mundtii has been isolated from cow teats, plants and soil, and though rare is pathogenic in humans causing enophthalmitis.

(Enterococcus mundtii, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the members for the affirmative offered several arguments of great strength and weight, alleging, that as the Yahoos were the most filthy, noisome, and deformed animals which nature ever produced, so they were the most restive and indocible, mischievous and malicious; they would privately suck the teats of the Houyhnhnms’ cows, kill and devour their cats, trample down their oats and grass, if they were not continually watched, and commit a thousand other extravagancies.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)