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A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 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.
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Alternative form of chile (pronunciation spelling of "child")
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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a milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats; formed in the small intestine during digestion of ingested fats
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour
From French, from Late Latin chȳlus, from Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós, “animal or plant juice”).
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
quil
— digestive fluid
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Chinese Cantonese:
乳糜
(jyu5 mei4)
— digestive fluid
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Chinese Mandarin:
乳糜
(rǔmí)
— digestive fluid
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Esperanto:
ĥilo
— digestive fluid
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Finnish:
maitiaisneste
— digestive fluid
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French:
chyle
— digestive fluid
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Hungarian:
bélnyirok
— digestive fluid
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Italian:
chilo
— digestive fluid
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Japanese:
乳糜
(nyūbi)
— digestive fluid
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Korean:
유미
(yumi)
— digestive fluid
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Occitan:
quil
— digestive fluid
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Polish:
mlecz
— digestive fluid
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Portuguese:
quilo
— digestive fluid
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Russian:
хилус
(xilus)
— digestive fluid
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Shan:
ၶီႈၼုမ်ႇ
(khīi nùm)
— digestive fluid
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Spanish:
quilo
— digestive fluid
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Thai:
น้ําเหลืองไขมันปน
— digestive fluid
