terra alba

Questions about terra alba

What does terra alba mean?

terra alba means "finely pulverized gypsum used especially as a pigment". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for terra alba?

Close synonyms include pipeclay, china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline. 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 terra alba a common word?

terra alba is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.