hyaline

adj

1. Glassy, transparent; amorphous.

   “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.”

noun

1. (countable, poetic, uncountable)Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.

   “The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.”

   “Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A clear translucent substance in tissues.
3. (countable, uncountable)The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.

   “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”