Alabaster

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dense translucent, white or tinted fine-grained gypsum.
  • n. A variety of hard calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
  • n. A pale yellowish pink to yellowish gray.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
  • n. A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
  • adj. Made of alabaster
  • adj. Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.
  • n. A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.
  • n. A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A box, casket, or vase made of alabaster. See alabastrum.
  • n. A marble-like mineral of which there are two well-known varieties, the gypseous and the calcareous.
  • Made of alabaster, or resembling it: as, “an alabaster column,” Addison, Travels in Italy.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a hard compact kind of calcite
  • n. a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving
  • n. a very light white
  • adj. of or resembling alabaster
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    calcite    gypsum    white    whiteness   
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    alabaster glass   
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