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hyalin

hyalin is the alternative spelling of hyaline.

Meaning of hyaline

Noun

hyaline (countable and uncountable, plural hyalines)

  1. (poetic) Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
    • The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  2. A clear translucent substance in tissues.
  3. 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 marked1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […]

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Forms of hyalin

pluralhyalins

Words formed from hyalin

Questions about hyalin

What is hyalin the alternative spelling of?
Hyalin is the alternative spelling of hyaline.

Words near hyalin in the dictionary

  1. hyalellids
  2. hyalescence
  3. hyalescent
  4. hyalid
  5. hyalids
  6. hyalin
  7. hyalinated
  8. hyaline
  9. hyaline cartilage
  10. hyaline cartilages
  11. hyaline degeneration

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