Hyaline

//ˈhaɪəlɪn// adj, noun

adj, noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky. countable, poetic, uncountable

    "The clear hyaline, the glassy sea."

  2. 2
    a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions wordnet
  3. 3
    A clear translucent substance in tissues. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation. countable, uncountable

    "where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Glassy, transparent; amorphous.

    "And, as below she braids her hyaline hair, / Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air […]."

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling glass in transparency or translucency wordnet

Synonyms

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airazureblueblue skycaelumcaelus

Example

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"And, as below she braids her hyaline hair, / Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air […]."

Etymology

From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).

Related phrases

hyaline cartilagehyaline degenerationhyaline membrane disease

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