Usually means: Moonstone variety of orthoclase feldspar.
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  1. adularia: Merriam-Webster
  2. adularia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. adularia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  9. Adularia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  11. adularia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  13. adularia: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  16. adularia: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (adularia)

noun:  (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).

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