Definitions for hyalines

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hyalines hy·a·line

Spelling: [noun hahy-uh-leen, -lin; adjective Hyalines is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in hyalines (aehilnsy).

Definitions for hyalines

noun

1. Also, hyalin, H04/H0454500 hahy-uh-lin, ˈhaɪ ə lɪn. Biochemistry. a horny substance found in hydatid cysts, closely resembling chitin. a structureless, transparent substance found in cartilage, the eye, etc., resulting from the pathological degeneration of tissue.
2. something glassy or transparent.

adjective

1. of or relating to hyaline.
2. glassy or transparent.
3. of or relating to glass.
4. amorphous; not crystalline.

Origin of hyalines

1655-65; Late Latin hyalinus Greek hyálinos of glass. See hyal-, -ine¹

Examples for hyalines

The third glume is hyaline, narrow-oblong, ciliate and obtuse.

The third glume is hyaline, linear-oblong, 2-nerved ciliate.

Grain is free, rugose, and the pericarp is hyaline and loose.

The second glume is as long as the first hyaline, oblong and obtuse.

The first glume is very minute, empty, hyaline and persistent.

The third glume is hyaline, empty, nerveless and without a palea.

The third glume is hyaline, linear-oblong, 2-nerved, ciliolate.

The first glume is ovate-lanceolate, acute and hyaline, 1-nerved.

Semi-hyaline: hyaline in part only: not altogether transparent.

The third glume is hyaline, thin, oblong, obtuse and nerveless.