a clear and colourless variety of opal in globular form
hyalite in American English
(ˈhaɪəˌlaɪt)
noun
a colorless, transparent or translucent variety of opal
Word origin
hyalo- + -ite1
hyalite in American English
(ˈhaiəˌlait)
noun
a colorless variety of opal, sometimes transparent like glass, and sometimes whitish and translucent
Word origin
[1785–95; hyal- + -ite1]This word is first recorded in the period 1785–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cyclic, edit, initiative, nitrogen, plateau-ite is a suffix of nouns denoting esp. persons associated with a place, tribe, leader,doctrine, system, etc. (Campbellite; Israelite; laborite); minerals and fossils (ammonite; anthracite); explosives (cordite; dynamite); chemical compounds, esp. salts of acids whose names end in -ous (phosphite; sulfite); pharmaceutical and commercial products (vulcanite); a member or component of a part of the body (somite)