Chyle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kaɪl/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chyle is a noun meaning A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
Meaning
A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of chile (pronunciation spelling of "child")
Example Sentences
And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.
1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 524, 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 chyle, together should sinew him to his intent.
Word Forms
- chyles
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include chyme, yolk, chaldron, chitterling, whey, schmalz.
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