hyalescent

hyalescent
Which becomes translucent.

The cruel crimson scar blanched and became a pale violet, and his vulturous eyes glazed, turned hyalescent (...) as if the hell-fire that had raged behind them had burnt itself out (...).


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  • hyalescent — hy·a·les·cent …   English syllables

  • hyalescent — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|lesənt adjective Etymology: hyal + escent : becoming or appearing hyaline …   Useful english dictionary

  • glass — Synonyms and related words: CM glass, CR glass, achromatic lens, adobe, aerological instrument, agate glass, alabaster, aneroid barometer, aneroidograph, astigmatic lens, barograph, barometer, barometrograph, beaker, bifocals, bijouterie,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • glassy — Synonyms and related words: blank, buffed, burnished, clear as glass, cold, dazed, deadpan, dull, empty, expressionless, finished, fishy, fixed, furbished, glace, glass, glasslike, glazed, gleaming, glossy, hyalescent, hyaline, hypnotic, icy,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • hyaline — Synonyms and related words: Caelus, air, azure, blue sky, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, cerulean, clear as glass, cope, empyrean, ether, firmament, glass, glasslike, glassy, heaven, heavens, hyalescent, lift, lifts, sky, starry heaven, the… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • translucent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lucid, clear, diaphanous, hyalescent, semi opaque, frosty. See transparency. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. glassy, semitransparent, pellucid, frosted, crystalline; see also clear 2 , transparent 1 .… …   English dictionary for students

  • hyaline — adj glassy, glasslike, made of glass; clear, clear as glass, crystalline, crystal clear, hyalescent; transparent, translucent, lucid, vitrious, vitreal, vitrean; diaphanous, diaphane, sheer, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • hyaline —   a. glassy; transparent.    ♦ hyalescent, a. becoming or somewhat glassy.    ♦ hyalography, n. engraving on glass.    ♦ hyaloid, a. like glass.    ♦ hyalopterous, a. with transparent wings …   Dictionary of difficult words

  • hyal- — combining form or hyalo Etymology: Late Latin, glass, from Greek, from hyalos transparent stone, glass 1. : glass : glassy …   Useful english dictionary

  • hyalescence — ˌhīəˈlesən(t)s noun ( s) Etymology: hyal + escence : the quality or state of being hyalescent …   Useful english dictionary

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