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chilifactory

chilifactory adjective: producing chyle.

Adjective

chilifactory (comparative more chilifactory, superlative most chilifactory)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Producing chyle.
    • Wherein notwithstanding, we should rather rely upon […] a Chilifactory menstruum or digestive preparation drawn from species or individuals, whose stomacks peculiarly dissolve lapideous bodies.1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, II.5

Forms of chilifactory

comparativemore chilifactory
superlativemost chilifactory
alternative formchylifactory

Origin of chilifactory

From Latin chilus, chylus (“chyle”).

Questions about chilifactory

What does chilifactory mean?
Chilifactory means producing chyle.
What part of speech is chilifactory?
Chilifactory is an adjective.

Words near chilifactory in the dictionary

  1. chilidium
  2. chilidog
  3. chilidogs
  4. chilied up
  5. chilies
  6. chilifactory
  7. chilified
  8. chilihead
  9. chiliheads
  10. chilihueque
  11. chilihueques

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