Crossword-Solution: ADIPOSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Adipose | a. | Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ADIPOSE | anagram | DESAPIO |
We have 24 clues for the answer “ADIPOSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Too fat. | 1 answer |
| Opposite of "lean" | 1 answer |
| More fat. | 1 answer |
| Lipoid | 1 answer |
| Containing animal fat | 1 answer |
| Describing Mrs. Sprat. | 1 answer |
| FAT, of the nature of | 1 answer |
| Fatty, as tissue | 1 answer |
| Like some connective tissue | 1 answer |
| Having to do with fatty body tissue | 1 answer |
| Like fatty tissue | 1 answer |
| Fatty tissue | 2 answers |
| Type of fat | 4 answers |
| fatlike | 6 answers |
| Types of fish fins | 7 answers |
| COMPOSED OF ANIMAL FAT | 10 answers |
| A FOLD OF FATTY TISSUE UNDER THE CHIN | 10 answers |
| Animal fat | 12 answers |
| Unctuous | 23 answers |
| Greasy | 42 answers |
| Fatty __ | 42 answers |
| Obese | 56 answers |
| Fatten | 66 answers |
| fat | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ADIPOSE (5)
Augustine simply because he wanted to see May, she gave an adipose chuckle and patted his knee with her puff-ball hand.
They have a soft and elastic consistency, and are usually composed of a hyaline or reticular cartilaginous axis covered with connective or adipose tissue and skin bearing fine hairs; sometimes both cartilage and fat are absent.
Obesity.--The abnormality of the adipose system, causing in consequence an augmentation of the natural volume of the subject, should be described with other anomalies of size and stature.
Abnormal Leanness.--In contrast to the fat men are the so-called "living skeletons," or men who have attained notice by reason of absence of the normal adipose tissue.
His bulk increased—no matter that— He tried the more to toss it— He never spoke of it as “fat,” But “adipose deposit.” Upon my word, it seems to me Unpardonable vanity (And worse than that) To call your fat An “adipose deposit.” At length his brawny knees gave way, And on the carpet sinking, Upon his shapeless back he lay And kicked away like winking.
Quotes with ADIPOSE (2)
It is nine o'clock, and London has breakfasted. Some unconsidered tens of thousands have, it is true, already enjoyed with what appetite they might their pre-prandial meal; the upper fifty thousand, again, have not yet left their luxurious couches, and will not breakfast till ten, eleven o'clock, noon; nay, there shall be sundry listless, languid members of fast military clubs, dwellers among the tents of Jermyn Street, and the high-priced second floors of Little Ryder Street…
Now the leatherback turtle overcame the heat issue via a simple, but evolutionarily impossible solution; it is the only reptile that possesses fatty insulation known as brown adipose tissue, and the only reptile that regulates a high body temperature. This brown adipose tissue is the expression of the UCP1 gene, and, aside from the leatherbacks, is found only in mammals, amphibians, and fishes. Not one other reptile has UCP1.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).