Word Meaning

hyaline definition and meaning

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.