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Alabaster

🔄 Synonyms of "Alabaster"

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Word	Definition
alabastrine	Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent.
onyx marblenoun	A banded variety of marble or calcium carbonate resembling onyx. It is obtained from Mexico.
oriental alabasternoun	a hard compact kind of calcite
mexican onyxnoun	a hard compact kind of calcite

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Alabaster"

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Word	Definition
onyx marblenoun	A banded variety of marble or calcium carbonate resembling onyx. It is obtained from Mexico.
mexican onyxnoun	a hard compact kind of calcite
oriental alabasternoun	a hard compact kind of calcite
gypseous	Containing gypsum.
alablasternoun	Obsolete form of alabaster. [A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.]
alabastrenoun	Obsolete form of alabaster. [A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.]
albariumnoun	(art) A form of lime, made by heating marble, used for stucco.
alum stonenoun	(mineralogy) Alternative form of alumstone (“alunite”). [(mineralogy) alunite]
agalitenoun	A fibrous variety of talc.
plaster-stonenoun	gypsum
albolithnoun	(obsolete) A kind of cement consisting mostly of magnesia and silica.
albolitenoun	Alternative form of albolith. [(obsolete) A kind of cement consisting mostly of magnesia and silica.]
aliznoun	A clay-based earthen plaster.
aschamalmitenoun	(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic creamy white mineral containing bismuth, lead, and sulfur.
gypsumnoun	A mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulphate. When calcinated, it forms plaster of Paris.
adularianoun	(mineralogy) A variety of orthoclase feldspar found as colorless to white prismatic crystals in cavities in metamorphic rocks. Some specimens reflect a bluish sheen along crystal faces. This phenomenon is called adularescence, and adularia with this property is called moonstone. (See sanidine).
agatenoun	(countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.
malmnoun	(geology) A soft, crumbly, chalky, grayish limestone.
argillitenoun	(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock, intermediate between shale and slate, sometimes used as a building material
agalmatolitenoun	(mineralogy) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, which was used in China for carvings in pagodas. It is probably a variety of pinite.