n.
A variety of transparent or translucent orthoclase.
[Italian, from French adulaire, after Adula, a mountain group of southeast Switzerland.]
adularia
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ad·u·lar·i·a (ăj'ə-lâr'ē-ə, -lăr'-) 
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n.
A variety of transparent or translucent orthoclase.
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