Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or composed of animal fat; fatty.
- noun The fat found in adipose tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fatty; consisting of, resembling, or having relation to fat.
- noun Fat in general; specifically, the fat on the kidneys.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) The fat present in the cells of adipose tissue, composed mainly of varying mixtures of tripalmitin, tristearin, and triolein. It solidifies after death.
- adjective Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.
- adjective (Zoöl.) a soft boneless fin.
- adjective (Anat.) that form of animal tissue which forms or contains fat.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, related to, or composed of
fat ;fatty - noun animal fat stored in the
tissue of thebody
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective composed of animal fat
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Korn had already established that the enzyme was present in adipose tissue.
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Since fat cells floated to the surface of the incubation medium, it proved a simple matter to separate and purify these cells from the mostly vascular cells in adipose tissue.
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The researchers revealed that the enzyme called adipose-specific phospholipase A2 (AdPLA) is found in abundance only in fat tissue.
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In the human body, fat is present in the form of an independent tissue called adipose tissue.
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Now, those fat cells get stored in something known as adipose tissue.
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A small, fleshy fin called an adipose fin is found directly behind the dorsal fin in salmonids.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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A small, fleshy fin called an adipose fin is found directly behind the dorsal fin in salmonids.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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A small, fleshy fin called an adipose fin is found directly behind the dorsal fin in salmonids.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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A small, fleshy fin called an adipose fin is found directly behind the dorsal fin in salmonids.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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The kidney and its vessels are imbedded in a mass of fatty tissue, termed the adipose capsule, which is thickest at the margins of the kidney and is prolonged through the hilum into the renal sinus.
plethora commented on the word adipose
A race of blobs of fat. Originally, they came from the planet Adipose III, which was taken by Davros. After they lost their home planet, they started breeding on Earth.
Appeared in season 4, episode 1, Partners in Crime.
October 2, 2008