- a finely granular variety of gypsum, often white and translucent, used for ornamental objects or work, such as lamp bases, figurines, etc.
- a variety of calcite, often banded, used or sold as alabaster.
- made of alabaster: an alabaster column.
- resembling alabaster; smooth and white: her alabaster throat.
- a fine-grained usually white, opaque, or translucent variety of gypsum used for statues, vases, etc
- a variety of hard semitranslucent calcite, often banded like marble
- of or resembling alabaster
