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    KAOLIN

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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)play

    Synonyms:

    china clay; china stone; kaolin; kaoline; porcelain clay; terra alba

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting substances

    Hypernyms ("kaolin" is a kind of...):

    clay (a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired)

    Domain member category:

    art paper (a high-quality paper (usually having a filler of china clay))

    Holonyms ("kaolin" is a substance of...):

    Kaopectate (trade name for a fixed-combination antidiarrheal drug that use kaolin as the adsorbent and pectin as the emollient)

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