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Webster 1913 Edition
Hyaline
Hy′a-line
,Adj.
[L.
hyalinus
, Gr. [GREEK], fr. ὕαλοσ
glass: cf. F. hyalin
.] Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.
“Hyaline spaces.” Carpenter.
Hy′a-line
,Noun.
1.
A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
“The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.” Milton.
Our blood runs amazed ’neath the calm
hyaline
. Mrs. Browning.
2.
(Biol.)
The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleus originates.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hyaline
HY'ALINE
,Adj.
Definition 2024
hyaline
hyaline
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Alternative forms
Adjective
hyaline (comparative more hyaline, superlative most hyaline)
- Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
- 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
- They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely.
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Translations
Noun
hyaline (countable and uncountable, plural hyalines)
- Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
- Milton
- The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.
- Elizabeth Browning
- Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.
- Milton
- (zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
- (biochemistry) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Arthur Gamgee to this entry?)