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vitreous


adjective

  1. of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
  2. of or relating to glass.
  3. obtained from or containing glass.

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or resembling glass
  2. made of, derived from, or containing glass
  3. of or relating to the vitreous humour or vitreous body
adj.

1640s, from Latin vitreus “of glass, glassy,” from vitreum “glass,” which perhaps was so called for its color (cf. vitrium “woad”). Vitreous humor attested from 1660s.

adj.

  1. Of, relating to, resembling, or having the nature of glass; glassy.
  2. Of or relating to the vitreous body.

n.

  1. The vitreous body.

  1. Relating to or resembling glass.
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