hyaline
/ˈhaɪəlɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.25 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "And, as below she braids her hyaline hair, / Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air […]."
- "They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely."
- "The clear hyaline, the glassy sea."
- "Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline."
- "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"
Etymology
From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hyalinus, ὑάλινος