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Dec 6, 2019
This week’s themeIllustrated words
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hyaloid
Illustration: Leah Palmer Preiss
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with Anu Garghyaloid
PRONUNCIATION:
(HY-uh-loyd) 
MEANING:
adjective: Glassy or transparent.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin hyaloides, from Greek hualoeies (glass-like), from hualos (glass). Earliest documented use: 1835.
USAGE:
“He squinted through the hyaloid membrane of the docking chamber’s blister and sighted upward along the elastic cable.”
Donald Moffitt; Second Genesis; Open Road; 2014.
See more usage examples of hyaloid in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
Donald Moffitt; Second Genesis; Open Road; 2014.
See more usage examples of hyaloid in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree. -(Alfred) Joyce Kilmer, journalist and poet (6 Dec 1886-1918)
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