Meaning of Hyaline | Babel Free
ˈhaɪəlɪnDefinitions
- Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
- A clear translucent substance in tissues.
- The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
Equivalents
Examples
“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”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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