Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of feldspar sometimes mixed with kaolin and used in Chinese porcelain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of silicious porcelain-clay prepared by the Chinese from partially decomposed granite. It is used by them as a medicine.
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- noun Alternative form of
petunse .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Mandarin bái dūnzi : bái, white; see pekoe + dūnzi, block of stone (dūn, mound, block from Middle Chinese tun, mound, block + Mandarin -zi, noun-formative suffix; see gyoza).]
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