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Hyaline vs Haline - What's the difference?

hyaline | haline |

As adjectives the difference between hyaline and haline

is that hyaline is glassy, transparent; amorphous while haline is salty; saline.

As a noun hyaline

is anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.

hyaline

English

Alternative forms

* hyalin

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
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    • Derived terms

    * hyaline degeneration

    Noun

    (-)
  • Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
  • * Milton
    • The clear hyaline , the glassy sea.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline .
  • (zoology, anatomy) A clear translucent substance in tissues.
  • (biochemistry) The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
    • (Arthur Gamgee)
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    haline

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • salty; saline
  • of, or relating to the degree of saltiness

    • Derived terms

    * euryhaline * mesohaline * oligohaline * stenohaline * thermohaline

    Anagrams

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