clayish
- a variation of clayey.
Example Sentences
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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 Cooper, James Fenimore
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 on a gently inclined hillside - red, decomposed rock, very deep, mellow, fluffy, and light, and deep down is clayish in character.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
Then little branches of green, with a blue flower, smiled out of the clayish sand.
From The Last of the Plainsmen by Grey, Zane
I prefer soil somewhat clayish, underlaid with limestone, with a north or east slope.
From The Apple by Various
