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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.

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  • noun geology A laminated mixture of two feldspars of different colours

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