Vitriform

  • 11vitreous, vitriform —    The first describes something made or having the quality of glass. The second means to have the appearance of glass …

    Dictionary of troublesome word

  • 12vitreous —  , vitriform  The first describes something made of or having the quality of glass. The second means to have the appearance of glass …

    Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • 13Hyaloid — Hy a*loid, a. [Gr. ? glassy, transparent; y alos glass + ? appearance: cf. F. hyalo[ i]de.] (Anat.) Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 14vitri- — a combining form meaning glass, used in the formation of compound words: vitriform. [comb. form of L vitrum glass] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 15glass — 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

  • 16glassy — 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

  • 17hyaline — 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

  • 18vitreous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. glassy, crystalline, vitriform; brittle, hard; transparent, translucent. See transparency, brittleness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. glassy, glasslike, thin, translucent, hyaline; see also clear 2 ,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 19Shapes and Resemblance — This assortment of 370 adjectives all refer in some way to the form or shape of things. Some are more geometrically descriptive than others, while a number of terms refer to animal forms or shapes of obscure objects. Certain adjectives for shapes …

    Phrontistery dictionary

  • 20hyaloid — a. (A nat.) Vitriform, transparent …

    New dictionary of synonyms