adularia

Named for the type locality at Adular, Switzerland.

adularia (plural adularias)

1. A variety of orthoclase feldspar found as colorless to white prismatic crystals in cavities in metamorphic rocks. Some specimens reflect a bluish sheen along crystal faces. This phenomenon is called adularescence, and adularia with this property is called moonstone. (See sanidine).

• adularescence
• adularescent

• rock
• mineral
• gemstone

• “Adularia” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
• “adularia”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.

From Adular, a Swiss locality.

adularia f (plural adularie)

1. (mineralogy) adularia

adularia

1. First-person singular (eu) conditional indicative of adular
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) conditional indicative of adular

• IPA^(key): /aduˈlaɾja/, [aðuˈlaɾja]

adularia f (plural adularias)

1. adularia (variety of orthoclase feldspar)

• “adularia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.