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- English Word Hyacinth Definition A plant of the genus Camassia (C. Farseri), called also Eastern camass; wild hyacinth.
- English Word Hyacinth Definition The name also given to Scilla Peruviana, a Mediterranean plant, one variety of which produces white, and another blue, flowers; -- called also, from a mistake as to its origin, Hyacinth of Peru.
- English Word Hyacinth Definition A red variety of zircon, sometimes used as a gem. See Zircon.
- English Word Hyacinthian Definition Hyacinthine.
- English Word Hyacinthine Definition Belonging to the hyacinth; resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth.
- English Word Hyades Definition Alt. of Hyads
- English Word Hyads Definition A cluster of five stars in the face of the constellation Taurus, supposed by the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun.
- English Word Hyaena Definition Same as Hyena.
- English Word Hyalea Definition A pteroid of the genus Cavolina. See Pteropoda, and Illustration in Appendix.
- English Word Hyalescence Definition The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.
- English Word Hyaline Definition Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal.
- English Word Hyaline Definition A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
- English Word Hyaline Definition The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.
- English Word Hyaline Definition The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation.
- English Word Hyalite Definition A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Muller's glass.
- English Word Hyalograph Definition An instrument for tracing designs on glass.
- English Word Hyalography Definition Art of writing or engraving on glass.
- English Word Hyaloid Definition Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.
- English Word Hyalonema Definition A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.
- English Word Hyalophane Definition A species of the feldspar group containing barium. See Feldspar.