chylaqueous, a.
(kaɪˈleɪkwiːəs)
[f. chyle + -aqueous.]
Of the nature of water mixed with chyle. chylaqueous fluid: A transparent colourless fluid existing in certain invertebrata, corresponding to the blood of the higher animals.
1859 Carpenter Anim. Phys. 1869 Nicholson Zool. 91 A cavity in the roof of the umbrella from which arise a series of radiating canals, the so-called chylaqueous canals. 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. An. ix. 560, I know not why the preposterous name of ‘chylaqueous fluid’ should have been invented for that which is in no sense ‘chyle’, though, like the other fluids, it contains a good deal of water. |