hyaline

Definition

Glassy, transparent; amorphous.

Etymology

From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).

Example Sentences

• "And, as below she braids her hyaline hair, / Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air […]."
• "They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely."