lachrymal
IPA: ɫˈækrˈaɪmʌɫ
noun
- A lachrymatory (vase intended for collecting tears).
- (humorous, in the plural) Lachrymal feelings or organs.
- (anatomy) Alternative spelling of lacrimal.
adjective
- (formal, literary) Connected with weeping or tears.
- (anatomy) Alternative spelling of lacrimal. [(anatomy) Of or relating to tears or the tear-secreting organs.]
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Examples of "lachrymal" in Sentences
- He was a lachrymal man.
- I don't want to be lachrymal.
- I could hear a lachrymal voice.
- Games opened the lachrymal floodgates.
- It was a perfect use of our lachrymal glands.
- The lachrymal caruncle is sometimes indicated.
- Tears were a reflex response of the lachrymal glands to these events.
- Adding lachrymal horns or whatever is fanciful and, frankly, bad science.
- Print journalists often try to imitate their TV counterparts by milking their readers' lachrymal gland.
- She might not have done much, but what she rendered was enough to pinch all our lachrymal glands, wetting some boxes of tissues all over.
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