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hyaline
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hyaline has 1 sense
- hyaline(n = noun.substance) hyalin - a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions; Array has particulars: keratohyalin
is a kind of translucent substance, transparent substance
Derived form adjective hyaline1
Adjective hyaline has 1 sense
- hyaline(s = adj.all) hyaloid - resembling glass in transparency or translucency; "the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline" Derived form noun hyaline1
CIDE DICTIONARY
hyaline, a. [L. hyalinus, Gr. , fr. "y`alos glass: cf. F. hyalin.].
Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. Carpenter. [1913 Webster]
hyaline, n.
- A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. Milton. [1913 Webster]"Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline." [1913 Webster]
- The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleus originates. [1913 Webster]
- The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation. Gamgee. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hyaline, adj. & n.
--adj. glasslike, vitreous, transparent.
--n. literary a smooth sea, clear sky, etc.
--adj. glasslike, vitreous, transparent.
--n. literary a smooth sea, clear sky, etc.
Idiom
hyaline cartilage n. a common type of cartilage.
Etymology
L hyalinus f. Gk hualinos f. hualos glass
THESAURUS
hyaline
Caelus, air, azure, blue sky, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, cerulean, clear as glass, cope, empyrean, ether, firmament, glass, glasslike, glassy, heaven, heavens, hyalescent, lift, lifts, sky, starry heaven, the blue, the blue serene, vault, vault of heaven, vitreous, vitriform, welkinROGET THESAURUS
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Transparency
N transparence, transparency, clarity, translucence, translucency, diaphaneity, lucidity, pellucidity, limpidity, fluorescence, transillumination, translumination, transparent medium, glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite, water, transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent, tralucent, relucent, limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal, vitreous, transpicuous, glassy, hyaline, hyaloid, vitreform.
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