1. A body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt)
   "The museum displayed a well-preserved Egyptian mummy"
    
2. [informal] A woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
   "the mummy of three children";
   - mother, female parent, ma [informal], mama [informal], mamma [informal], mom [N. Amer, informal], momma [N. Amer, informal], mommy [N. Amer, informal], mammy [informal], mum [Brit, informal], mumma [informal], mam [UK, informal], mater [UK, archaic, informal], supermom [informal]

Derived forms: mummies

Type of: body, dead body, parent

Encyclopedia: Mummy, Tomb of the Pharaoh