1. crystalline(a = adj.all) - consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals; "granite is crystalline"
Antonym: noncrystalline
2. crystalline(s = adj.all) - distinctly or sharply outlined; "crystalline sharpness of outline"
3. crystalline(s = adj.all) crystal clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent - transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent crystal"
1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. [1913 Webster]
"Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline." [1913 Webster]
2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. [1913 Webster]
"Their crystalline structure." [1913 Webster]
3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized. [1913 Webster]
4. Fig.: Resembling crystal; pure; transparent; pellucid. Milton. [1913 Webster]
1. A crystalline substance. [1913 Webster]
2. See Aniline. [1913 Webster]
crystalline, adj.
1 of, like, or clear as crystal.
2 Chem. & Mineral. having the structure and form of a crystal.
Idiom:
crystalline lens a transparent lens enclosed in a membranous capsule behind the iris of the eye.
Derivative:
crystallinity n.
Etymology:
ME f. OF cristallin f. L crystallinus f. Gk krustallinos (as CRYSTAL)
N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.
N transparence, transparency, clarity, translucence, translucency, diaphaneity, lucidity, pellucidity, limpidity, fluorescence, transillumination, translumination, transparent medium, glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite, water, transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent, tralucent, relucent, limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal, vitreous, transpicuous, glassy, hyaline, hyaloid, vitreform.