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noun 
  1. a digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine
  • 1922: And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, , blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine. " James Joyce, Ulysses
Etymology: Late Latin chylus, from Greek "animal or plant juice".


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