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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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • 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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