1. Pertaining to milk.
2. Conveying chyle; as a lacteal vessel.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
A vessel or slender tube of animal bodies, for conveying chyle from the intestines to the common reservatory.
1. Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.
2. Pertaining to, or containing, chyle; as, the lacteal vessels.
One of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the small intestine through the mesenteric glands to the thoracic duct; a chyliferous vessel.
Semiliquidity Roget’s Thesaurus §352
N. semiliquidity, stickiness, viscidity, viscosity, gummosity, glutinosity, mucosity, spissitude, crassitude, lentor, adhesiveness, inspissation, incrassation, thickening, jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten, carlock, fish glue, ichthyocol, ichthycolla, isinglass, mucus, phlegm, goo, pituite, lava, glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein|, treacle, gum, size, glue (tenacity) 327, wax, beeswax, emulsion, soup, squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze, moisture, marsh
Adj. semifluid, semiliquid, tremellose, half melted, half frozen, milky, muddy, lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous, emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous, gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous, glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted, viscid, viscous, sticky, tacky, gooey, slab, slabby, lentous|, pituitous, mucid, muculent, mucous, gummy
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