chyle

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

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

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.

• chyle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Chely, chely, lechy

• IPA^(key): [ˈxɨlɛ]

chyle

1. third-person plural present of chyliś