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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 nip·ple /ˈnɪpəl/
 乳頭,奶頭,奶嘴

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 nip·ple /ˈnɪpəl/ 名詞
 乳頭,螺紋接套,(螺絲)管接頭,短接管,噴嘴,橡皮奶頭,奶頭罩,橡皮頭

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Nip·ple n.
 1. Anat. The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
 2. The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged. [R.]
 3. Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge.
 4. Mech. A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.
 Solder nipple, a short pipe, usually of brass, one end of which is tapered and adapted for attachment to the end of a lead pipe by soldering.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 nipple
      n : the small projection of a mammary gland [syn: mammilla, mamilla,
           pap, teat, tit]