capillary

Meaning of capillary

noun
  1. any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules.
  2. a tube that has an internal diameter of hairlike thinness.
adjective
  1. relating to capillaries or capillarity.
    capillary blood

mid 17th century: from Latin capillaris, from capillus ‘hair’, influenced by Old French capillaire .

Information about capillary

  • The plural form of capillary is: capillaries.
  • Languages ​​in which capillary is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of capillary

cap-il-lary

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • capillary is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

capillary synonyms

Meaning hairlike:

hairlike

Translation of capillary

Words that rhyme with capillary

alary, hospitalary, intercalary, interpetalary, journalary, salary, scalary, subalary, Clary, McClary, clary, pedlary, evangelary, supertutelary, telary, tutelary, untutelary, velary, flary, antiburglary, burglary, glary, Hilary, acheilary, achilary, apilary, bacilary, basilary, hilary, pilary, pupilary, similary, Ellary, Fusospirillary, Hillary, Submaxillary, admaxillary, adrenomedullary, alveolocapillary, ampullary, ancillary, apicillary, arillary, armillary, arteriocapillary, auxillary, axillary, bacillary, biaxillary, bicarpellary

Are you looking more rhymes for capillary? Try our rhymes search engine.