hyaline

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

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

countable, poetic, uncountable Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky. The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.
countable, uncountable A clear translucent substance in tissues.
countable, uncountable The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation. 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