chyles
chyles is the plural of chyle.
Meaning of chyle
Noun
chyle (countable and uncountable, plural chyles)
- 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
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- What is chyles the plural of?
- Chyles is the plural of chyle.
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