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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 hy·a·line /ˈhaɪələn, ˌlaɪn/
 (a.)玻璃似的,透明的鏡似的海,天空

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 hy·a·line /ˈhaɪələn, ˌlaɪn/ 形容詞
 透明的,玻璃樣的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hy·a·line a.  Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. Hyaline spaces.”

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hy·a·line, n.
 1. A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere. “The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.”
    Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.   --Mrs. Browning.
 2. Biol. The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleus originates.
 3. Physiol. Chem. The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 hyaline
      adj : resembling glass in transparency or translucency; "the
            morning is as clear as diamond or as
            hyaline"-Sacheverell Sitwell [syn: hyaloid]
      n : a glassy translucent material that occurs in hyaline
          cartilage or in certain skin conditions [syn: hyalin]