Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of water containing corpuscles resembling the white corpuscles found in chyle, lymph, and blood in being nucleated and in exhibiting amœboid movements.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Consisting of chyle much diluted with water; -- said of a liquid which forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Consisting of
chyle diluted withwater ; said of aliquid that forms the circulating fluid of someinferior animals .
Etymologies
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Blend of chyle and aqueous
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A little higher in the scale naturalists find a 'chylaqueous fluid,' which oscillates in the general cavity of the sack-like animal.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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