Dictionary Entry
capillary
capillary is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.
- 2adjective
Pertaining to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action.
- 3noun
A tube or vessel, extremely fine or minute.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action
- 6noun
any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules
- 7adjective
long and slender with a very small internal diameter
"a capillary tube"
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- 8adjective
of or relating to hair
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