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.

Translations

digestive fluid

• Catalan: quil m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 乳糜 (jyu⁵ mei⁴)

  Mandarin: 乳糜 (zh) (rǔmí)

• French: chyle (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: chilo (it) m
• Occitan: quil m
• Portuguese: quilo (pt) m
• Spanish: quilo (es) m

Further reading

• chyle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Chely, chely, lechy

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈxɨlɛ]

Verb

chyle

1. third-person plural present of chyliś