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hyaline en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈhaɪəliːn/
- /ˈhaɪəlɪn/
- (Southern-England) audio
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Etymology
From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).
Meanings
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Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
And, as below she braids her hyaline hair, / Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air […].
1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 117:They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely.
1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
Forms
Deriveds
holohyaline · hyaline membrane disease · hyalinocyte · hyalinosis · semihyaline · hyalinelike · hyalinize · hypohyaline · subhyaline · hyaline degeneration · fibrohyaline · hyalescence · hyaline cartilage
Translations (7)
es hialino (glassy, transparent) · sv hyalin (glassy, transparent) · ca hialí (glassy, transparent) · is glær (glassy, transparent) · bg прозрачен (glassy, transparent) · kmr ron (glassy, transparent) · fr hyalin (glassy, transparent)
hyaline en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈhaɪəliːn/
- /ˈhaɪəlɪn/
- (Southern-England) audio
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).
Meanings
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(countable, poetic, uncountable) Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.
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:Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.
1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Rhapsody of Life's Progress:
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(countable, uncountable) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
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(countable, uncountable) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
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
1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :
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