Definition of crystalline
- crystalline air
- a crystalline lake
we could see fish swimming beneath the crystalline ice of the frozen lake
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clear, crystal, crystal clear, limpid, liquid, lucent, pellucid, see-through, transparent;
colored, dark, glazed, tinted;
diaphanous, lucid, semitranslucent, semitransparent, sheer, translucent;
: clear and shining like crystal
: made of or similar to crystal or crystals
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