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adjective

Crystalline adj.

1.

Consisting, or made, of crystal. "Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline."

2.

Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. "Their crystalline structure."

3.

Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized.

4.

Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid. "The crystalline sky."

Crystalline heavens, or Crystalline spheres, in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, two transparent spheres imagined to exist between the region of the fixed stars and the primum mobile (or outer circle of the heavens, which by its motion was supposed to carry round all those within it), in order to explain certain movements of the heavenly bodies.

Crystalline lens (Anat.), the capsular lenslike body in the eye, serving to focus the rays of light. It consists of rodlike cells derived from the external embryonic epithelium.

noun

Crystalline n.

1.

A crystalline substance.

2.

See Aniline. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Crystalline'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

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— Poems • Oscar Wilde

... it, as if it had been heroically snatched from the nether fires, into which it had been thrown by dyspeptic Puritans; the dessert was as splendid as ever, with its golden oranges, brown nuts, and the crystalline light and dark of apple-jelly and damson cheese; in all these things Christmas was as it had always been since Tom could remember; it was only distinguished, it by anything, by superior ...

— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot

... with difficulty, and only by one or two known paths. To the pedestrian it is a task; and there are places into which he even cannot penetrate without scaling cliffs and traversing chasms deep and dangerous. It bristles with cactus, zuccas, and other forms of crystalline vegetation, characteristic of a barren soil. But there are spots of great fertility—hollows where the volcanic ashes were deposited—forming little oases, into which the honest Indian finds his way ...

— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid

... finished, raised cries of rapture at seeing it standing there among bits of wood, which figured trees. And then the softened glances of the parents strayed now through the window towards the crops sleeping beneath the crystalline rime, and now towards their last-born's cradle, where hope was ...

— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola

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