hyaline

• hyalin

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌɪəlɪn/, /ˈhʌɪəliːn/

hyaline (comparative more hyaline, superlative most hyaline)

1. Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

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

• hyaline degeneration

hyaline (countable and uncountable, plural hyalines)

1. Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
   • Milton

     The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.

   • Elizabeth Browning

     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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Arthur Gamgee to this entry?)

hyaline

1. vocative masculine singular of hyalinus