hyaline
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[edit] Etymology
Latin hyalinus, from late Ancient Greek ύαλινος, from ύαλος (“glass”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈhʌɪəlɪn/, /ˈhʌɪəliːn/
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[edit] Adjective
hyaline (comparative more hyaline, superlative most hyaline)
- Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
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- 1974: They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely. — Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
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[edit] Noun
hyaline (uncountable)
- Anything glassy, translucent or transparent.
- (zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
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[edit] Adjective
hyaline
- vocative masculine singular of hyalinus
