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hyaline

PRONUNCIATION:

(HY-uh-lin/leen)

MEANING:

adjective: Like glass: transparent or translucent.
noun: A substance that is transparent or translucent.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek hualos (glass). Earliest documented use: 1661.

USAGE:

“He shared the same color blue to his eyes as Max had, clear and hyaline like a glassy sky.”
Daniel Robinson; After the Fire; Skyhorse Publishing; 2015.

See more usage examples of hyaline in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (14 Jun 1811-1896)

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