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chyle

/kaɪl/

chyle noun: a digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine. Also the alternative form of chile.

chyle: a digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine
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Noun

chyle (countable and uncountable, plural chyles)

  1. A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
    • It is said that when the tidings were brought him, he was ashore sitting beneath a hemlock eating his dinner of venison - and as the tidings were told him, after the first start he kept on eating, but slowly and deliberately, chewing the wild news with the wild meat, as if both together, turned to...1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 524
    • And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

Also used as

chyle is also the alternative form of chile.

chyle meaning in Thai

chyle in Thai

digestive fluid
น้ำเหลืองไขมันปน

Forms of chyle

pluralchyles

Origin of chyle

From French, from Late Latin chȳlus, from Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós, “animal or plant juice”).

Words formed from chyle

Words that rhyme with chyle

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Questions about chyle

What does chyle mean?
Chyle means a digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
What is chyle in Thai?
Chyle in Thai is น้ำเหลืองไขมันปน. See Chyle meaning in Thai.
What part of speech is chyle?
Chyle is a noun.
How do you pronounce chyle?
Chyle is pronounced /kaɪl/.
What is the plural of chyle?
The plural of chyle is chyles.

Words near chyle in the dictionary

  1. chylangioma
  2. chylangiomas
  3. chylaqueous
  4. chylde
  5. chyldren
  6. chyle
  7. chyles
  8. chylic
  9. chylifaction
  10. chylifactive
  11. chylifactory

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