a. [f. L. type *chȳlific-us chyle-making: see -FIC.] Chyle-producing. Chylific stomach: in insects, the digestive cavity formed by the dilation of the alimentary canal.
1836–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., II. 971/1. The chylific stomach is exceedingly long and cylindrical.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., 412. In the chylific ventricle, the muscular layers and the basement membrane are disposed much as before.
