Vocabulary Word
Word: vitreous
Definition: of glass; pertaining to or resembling glass; V. vitrify: change into glass; CF. petrify
Definition: of glass; pertaining to or resembling glass; V. vitrify: change into glass; CF. petrify
Sentences Containing 'vitreous'
It is a vitreous greenish blue, as I remember it, like those patches of the winter sky seen through cloud vistas in the west before sundown.
It is a significant fact that even in man, according to the high authority of Virchow, the beautiful crystalline lens is formed in the embryo by an accumulation of epidermic cells, lying in a sack-like fold of the skin; and the vitreous body is formed from embryonic subcutaneous tissue.
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