hyaline

Plural: hyalines

Noun

• A transparent, glassy substance or membrane.
• a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions
• Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
• A clear translucent substance in tissues.
• The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.

Adjective Satellite

• resembling glass in transparency or translucency; -Sacheverell Sitwell
  • "the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"

Adj

• Glassy, transparent; amorphous.

Examples

• Her strategy for Words With Friends was hyaline, transparently brilliant to anyone watching.

Synonyms

hyalin, hyaloid

Anagrams of hyaline