terra alba   (TTS Sound)

The noun terra alba has 3 senses

• terra alba -- (finely pulverized gypsum used especially as a pigment)


• pipeclay, terra alba -- (fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather)


• china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba -- (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))