hyaline
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈhaɪəlɪn/, /ˈhaɪəliːn/
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Adjective
[edit]hyaline (comparative more hyaline, superlative most hyaline)
- Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
- 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 117:
- And, as below she braids her hyaline hair, / Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air […] .
- 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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[edit]glassy, transparent
Noun
[edit]hyaline (countable and uncountable, plural hyalines)
- (poetic) Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.
- 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Rhapsody of Life's Progress:
- Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.
- (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.
- 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :
- 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
Latin
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