Crystalloid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Chemistry A substance that can be crystallized.
  • n. Botany Any of various minute crystallike particles consisting of protein and found in certain plant cells, especially oily seeds.
  • adj. Resembling or having properties of a crystal or crystalloid.
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  • n. Any substance that can be crystallized from solution
  • n. One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
  • n. A body which, in solution, diffuses readily through animal membranes, and generally is capable of being crystallized; -- opposed to colloid.
  • n. One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also protein crystal.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Resembling a crystal.
  • n. The name given by Professor Graham to a class of bodies which have the power, when in solution, of passing easily through membranes, as parchment-paper, and which he found to be of a crystalline character.
  • n. A protein crystal—that is, a granule of protein in the form of a crystal, differing from an organic crystal in the inconstancy of its angles and in its property of swelling when immersed in water. Such crystalloids are of various forms and usually colorless.
    • Word Usage
    "What Kallatra did with Deuce's crystalloid resonators was a pallid approximation."
    Variant
    protein crystal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    crystal-like   
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