white feldspar

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   a widely distributed feldspar that forms rocks

   Synonymsalbite

   Broaderplagioclase

Questions about white feldspar

What does white feldspar mean?

white feldspar means "a widely distributed feldspar that forms rocks".

What is another word for white feldspar?

Close synonyms include albite. 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 white feldspar a common word?

white feldspar 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.