clayey
adjective
covered or smeared with clay.
clayish
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a variation of
clayey.
Example Sentences
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I noticed some beautiful mezquites in the bed of a creek, the bottom of which was clayish.
From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Carl Lumholtz
Then as we proceeded up the steep clayish track, I could not, on looking back, help admiring the magnificent Kali valley with its gigantic cliffs and gorges surmounted by lofty snow peaks.
From In the Forbidden Land by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Slate mixed with quartz on a clayish bottom, and with basalt, is esteemed a good soil, as is also marl and gravel.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper
The crust of the clayish earth is covered with a reddish brown covering of about half a millimeter in thickness.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
The soil is a hungry white clayish earth, mixed with sand and rocks; and there is no fresh water, nor any green thing to be seen on either of the islands.
