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Adipose   /ˈædəpˌoʊs/   Listen
noun
Adipose  n.  (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
Adipose  adj.  Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty.
Adipose fin (Zool.), a soft boneless fin.
Adipose tissue (Anat.), that form of animal tissue which forms or contains fat.






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"Adipose" Quotes from Famous Books



... Buchers Gard had manfully to face six meals a day. Must he be swamped in order to put the desirable adipose tissue on his bones? By all the laws of American dieting and Prohibition the German race should have been destroyed by indigestion and drunkenness centuries ago. But here they were more flourishing than ever—the ...
— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry

... Unctuousness. — N. unctuousness &c. adj.; unctuosity[obs3], lubricity; ointment &c. (oil) 356; anointment; lubrication &c. 332. V. oil &c. (lubricate) 332. Adj. unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous[obs3]; fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... drinking, a very pernicious habit, in which many Finlanders indulge to excess. There are men in Suomi—dozens of them—so fat that no healthy Englishman could ever attain to such dimensions; one of them will completely occupy the seat of an Isvoschtschik, while the amount of adipose tissue round his wrists and cheeks seems absolutely incredible when seen for the first time, and one wonders how any chair or carriage can ever bear such a weight. Inordinately fat men are certainly one of the least pleasing ...
— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie

... fat pony, admonished by the whip, described a circle with his tail, frisked with the agility of a playful elephant, and then set off at a better pace than from his adipose appearance I had deemed him ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley

... to unify and organize must go with all right acquisition. Knowledges must be changed to knowledge. It takes force to handle weight. Some men seem to know more than is healthy for them. It does not make muscle, but becomes plethoric, dropsical, adipose, or adipocere. Better to have thought more and acquired less. Frederick W. Robertson, in his prime, wrote,—'I will answer for it that there are few girls of eighteen who have not read more books than I have;' and Mrs. Browning confessed,—'I should be wiser if I had not read half as much;' while ...
— The History of Dartmouth College • Baxter Perry Smith


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