Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chyle

/kaɪl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.40 in modern English

Syllables: chyle
IPA: /kaɪl/

13

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Alternative form of chile (pronunciation spelling of "child")

Example Sentences

"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."
"And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: -, chȳlus, χυλός

Usage

Inflected Forms

chyles (plural)

Derived Forms

blastochyle cacochylia chylaceous chylaqueous chylic chyliferous chylific chylification chylify chylorrhœa chylosis chylous

Homonyms

kile kyle

Rhymes With

while style file smile mile last mile pile kyle chile awhile isle worthwhile

Questions

How do you pronounce chyle?: The recorded pronunciation is /kaɪl/.
What does chyle mean?: A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
Where does chyle come from?: It is traced to French.

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