different between chyle vs lactean

English

Etymology

From French, from Late Latin ch?lus, from Ancient Greek ????? (khulós, “animal or plant juice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l
• Homophones: kile, kyle, Kyle

Noun

chyle (countable and uncountable, plural chyles)

1. A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
   • 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.

Translations

Further reading

• chyle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Chely, chely, lechy

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?x?l?]

Verb

chyle

1. third-person plural present of chyli?

English

Etymology

See lacteal.

Adjective

lactean (comparative more lactean, superlative most lactean)

1. (poetic) milky
   • 1665, Joseph Moxon, A Tutor to Astronomie and Geographie

     this lactean whiteness

2. lacteal; conveying chyle

Synonyms

• (milky): lacteous, lactescent; see also Thesaurus:lacteous
• (conveying chyle): lacteous

Anagrams

• catenal