a. [f. CHYLE + -AQUEOUS.] Of the nature of water mixed with chyle. Chylaqueous fluid: A transparent colorless 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. Anim., 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 other fluids of the living body, it contains a good deal of water.
