clayey
Americanadjective
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covered or smeared with clay.
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like or resembling clay.
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full of or abounding in clay.
Etymology
Origin of clayey
before 1050; Middle English cleii, Old English clǣig; see clay, -ey 1
Example Sentences
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The ground was black and clayey and riddled with hundreds of slate arrow points, as if from a prehistoric drive-by shooting.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021
Sand-rich rock containing minor amounts of clay is called clayey sandstone.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Its white façades have been soaked with red earth dust, giving the city a warm, clayey hue, and they are often stamped with the national motto, “Unité, Dignité, Travail”: Unity, Dignity, Work.
From Slate • Aug. 29, 2014
The arrests came after a return visit by the journalists to spots of clayey earth outside the village of Glogova, in a valley near Srebrenica.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of the area has clayey soil that is hard to till and prone to floods.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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