chyliferous

1. 1.

   transmitting chyle

   “chyliferous vessels”

Questions about chyliferous

What does chyliferous mean?

chyliferous means "transmitting chyle".

How many syllables are in chyliferous?

chyliferous has 4 syllables and divides as chy-li-fe-rous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is chyliferous a common word?

chyliferous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.