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noun
Hyaline  n.  
1.
A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. "The clear hyaline, the glassy sea." "Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline."
2.
(Biol.) The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleus originates.
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.


adjective
Hyaline  adj.  Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. "Hyaline spaces."





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"Hyaline" Quotes from Famous Books



... its ineffable hue of an azure background of Leonardo's, strange, enchanting, mysterious, leading on the eye and the imagination into regions of fabulous delight. As she gazed, her heart beat with a soft and rapturous surprise; so exquisite a promise she read in the summons of that hyaline distance. ...
— The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10) • Edith Wharton


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