hyaline

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: hy=a=line

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.

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, welkin

ROGET THESAURUS

hyaline

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.