Hyaline

/ˈhaɪəlɪn/ · adjective

Meaning

Glassy, transparent; amorphous..

Definitions by Sense

1. Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
2. (poetic) Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
3. (zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
4. (biochemistry) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.

Example Sentences

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

They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely.

The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.

Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.

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

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Word Forms

• more hyaline
• most hyaline
• hyalin
• hyalines

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