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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A flesh-red aventurine variety of feldspar from Perth in Ontario, Canada.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A
laminated mixture of twofeldspars of different colours
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