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CHYME

Dictionary entry overview: What does chyme mean?

• CHYME (noun)
The noun CHYME has 1 sense:

1. a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum

Familiarity information: CHYME used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CHYME (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("chyme" is a kind of...):

food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue)

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