Wiktionary:Word of the day/2021/May 29

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ichor n
  1. (Greek mythology) The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods.
  2. (by extension)
    1. (chiefly poetic) The blood of human beings or animals; also (obsolete) the clear, fluid portion of blood; blood plasma, plasma.
    2. (chiefly poetic, figuratively) A blood-like fluid.
    3. (geology, archaic) A fluid believed to seep out from magma and cause rock to turn into granite.
    4. (pathology, obsolete) A fetid, watery discharge from a sore; pus.
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