Definitions for vitreous

vitreous vit·re·ous

Spelling: [vi-tree-uh s]
IPA: /ˈvɪ tri əs/

Vitreous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in vitreous (eiorstuv).

Definitions for vitreous

adjective

  1. of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.:
  2. of or relating to glass.
  3. obtained from or containing glass.

Origin of vitreous

1640-50; Latin vitreus, equivalent to vitr(um) glass + -eus -eous

Examples for vitreous

Borax dried at a gentle heat, and then melted by increasing the heat until it forms a vitreous mass on being cooled.

It crystallises in the 4th (rhombic) system, and its lustre is vitreous.

He did not even seem to know I watched him gliding through the vitreous deep.

The vitreous body plays a part in the refraction of the light.

This vitreous body is enclosed in an expansion of the optic nerve.

The sulphate is, in this case, charged with vitreous electricity.

If the vitreous should present, the lens should be removed with the vectis.

His striated eyeballs had a vitreous look; they were as hard as marbles.

The air was of the same biting stillness and vitreous transparency.

The ice was black and clear and vitreous on the forest pools.

Word Value for vitreous
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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