adipose

Meanings

Adjective

• Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat; fatty.
• Slightly overweight; chubby.

Noun

• Animal fat stored in the tissue of the body.

Related

Similar words

• fatty
• chubby, chunky, overweight, plump, podgy, tubby

Origin

• From New Latin adipōsus, from Latin adeps, probably related to Umbrian ařepes "offerings of fat" since < ř > in Umbrian regularly represents an earlier *d.