hyaline

4 definitions found

hyaline - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hyaline \Hy"a*line\, a. [L. hyalinus, Gr. ?, fr. "y`alos glass:
     cf. F. hyalin.]
     Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent,
     like crystal. "Hyaline spaces." --Carpenter.
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  Hyaline \Hy"a*line\, n.
     1. A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. "The clear
        hyaline, the glassy sea." --Milton.
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              Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.
                                                    --Mrs.
                                                    Browning.
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     2. (Biol.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in
        process of development, from which, according to some
        embryologists, the cell nucleus originates.
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     3. (Physiol. Chem.) The main constituent of the walls of
        hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by
        decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of
        alcoholic fermentation. --Gamgee.
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hyaline - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hyaline
      adj 1: resembling glass in transparency or translucency; "the
             morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"-Sacheverell
             Sitwell [syn: hyaline, hyaloid]
      n 1: a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline
           cartilage or in certain skin conditions [syn: hyaline,
           hyalin]

hyaline - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, welkin