capillary

capillary has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
• a.. Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
• n.. A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
• n.. A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.
• n.. a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
• n.. any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
• a.. long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"
• a.. of or relating to hair