Hyaline
WordNet
adjective
(1) Resembling glass in transparency or translucency
"The morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"-Sacheverell Sitwell
noun
(2) A glassy translucent material that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- 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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- Pertaining to the substance hyaline.
Noun
- Anything glassy, translucent or transparent.
- A clear translucent substance in tissues.