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Chyle vs Lactean - What's the difference?

chyle | lactean |

As a noun chyle

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

As an adjective lactean is

milky.

chyle

English

(wikipedia chyle)

Noun

  • A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.
  • * 1922', And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, '''chyle , blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses

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    lactean

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • milky
    • This lactean whiteness. — Moxon.
  • lacteal; conveying chyle
    • (Webster 1913)