chyle

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaɪl/
  • Rhymes: -aɪl
  • Homophones: kile, kyle, Kyle

Noun

chyle (countable and uncountable, plural chyles)

  1. A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
      And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈxɨlɛ]

Verb

chyle

  1. third-person plural present of chyliś
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