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Spell Bee Word: Capillary

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What does capillary mean?

Word: Capillary

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Capillary means one of the tiny, thin tubes that carry blood between the arteries and veins in the body. It can also mean any very narrow tube.

Word origin: From a Latin word for a hair, because capillaries are as thin as hairs.

How do you spell capillary?

Syllables: cap - il - lar - y

Tricky part: The ending is ary, as in library, even though artery ends in ery.

Watch out for: capillery, capillarry, capillairy

Memory tip: Capillary ends in the same ary as library: imagine a library whose shelves are made of tiny tubes.

Capillary in a sentence

Example 1: The doctor explained that our cheeks turn pink when the capillaries under the skin widen.

Example 2: Oxygen passes from the capillaries into the cells around them.

Example 3: We used a capillary tube in the lab to watch water climb upwards.

Next steps

Fun Fact

Capillaries are so narrow that red blood cells often have to pass through them in single file.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

ca_il_ary

a) b, l
b) p, l
c) p, r
d) p, i

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b) p, l. Cap has one p, and the l is doubled, as in pillar.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) vessle
b) pulmanary
c) capillary
d) coronnary

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c) capillary. Vessel ends in el, pulmonary has an o after the m, and coronary has one n.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

rillpacay

a) pillar
b) capillary
c) caterpillar
d) capitalise

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b) capillary. Caterpillar and capitalise need a t, and pillar is far too short; nine letters with a y make capillary.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which part of the body would you find capillaries?

a) almost every part of it
b) only in the lungs
c) only in the brain
d) only in the heart

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a) almost every part of it

2. An oil lamp's wick draws oil up to the flame by capillary ____.

a) magnet
b) charge
c) action
d) current

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c) action

Associated Words

Words that end in -ary: unitary, bursary, arbitrary, dietary, monetary, actuary

More words from this list

crossbar, enthusiastic, haulage, manganese, physiology, skeleton, utopia, agrarian

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