porcelain clay

1. 1.

   a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)

   Synonymschina claychina stonekaolinkaolineterra alba

   Broaderclay

Questions about porcelain clay

What does porcelain clay mean?

porcelain clay means "a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)".

What is another word for porcelain clay?

Close synonyms include china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline, terra alba. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is porcelain clay a common word?

porcelain clay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.