hyaline

hyaline has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• a.. Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.
• n.. A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
• n.. The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.
• n.. The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.
• n.. a glassy translucent substance that occurs in hyaline cartilage or in certain skin conditions
• a.. resembling glass in transparency or translucency; "the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"-Sacheverell Sitwell