capillaries

Meaning of capillaries

plural 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.

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

Information about capillaries

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of capillaries is: capillary.
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Hyphenation of capillaries

cap-il-lar-ies

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • capillaries is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

Anagrams of capillaries

capillaires

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