hyaline

English

Alternative forms

• hyalin

Etymology

From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪəlɪn/, /ˈhaɪəliːn/

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Adjective

hyaline (comparative more hyaline, superlative most hyaline)

1. Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
   • 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 117:

     And, as below she braids her hyaline hair, / Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air […] .

   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely.

Derived terms

• hyaline cartilage
• hyaline degeneration
• hyaline membrane disease

 

Translations

glassy, transparent

• Bulgarian: прозрачен (bg) (prozračen)
• Icelandic: glær m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ron (ku)

• Swedish: hyalin (sv)

Noun

hyaline (countable and uncountable, plural hyalines)

1. (poetic) Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
   • 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:

     The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.

   • 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Rhapsody of Life's Progress:

     Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.

2. (zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
3. (biochemistry) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
   • 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :

     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

Latin

Adjective

hyaline

1. vocative masculine singular of hyalinus