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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions;
[syn: hyaline, hyalin]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. resembling glass in transparency or translucency;
- Example: "the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"-Sacheverell Sitwell
[syn: hyaline, hyaloid]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hyaline \Hy"a*line\, a. [L. hyalinus, Gr. ?, fr. "y`alos glass: cf. F. hyalin.] Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. "Hyaline spaces." --Carpenter. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hyaline \Hy"a*line\, n. 1. A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. "The clear hyaline, the glassy sea." --Milton. [1913 Webster] Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleus originates. [1913 Webster] 3. (Physiol. Chem.) 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hyaline adj 1: resembling glass in transparency or translucency; "the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"-Sacheverell Sitwell [syn: hyaline, hyaloid] n 1: a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions [syn: hyaline, hyalin]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

30 Moby Thesaurus words for "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