adjective
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consisting of or resembling slate
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having the colour of slate
Other Word Forms
- slatiness noun
Etymology
Origin of slaty
Example Sentences
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Slate is a fine-grained metamorphic rock that exhibits a foliation called slaty cleavage that is the flat orientation of the small platy crystals of mica and chlorite forming perpendicular to the direction of stress.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
The rock also has a strong slaty foliation, which is horizontal in this view, and has developed because the rock was being squeezed during metamorphism.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Swish-swish, and a thick, blue-black helmet-headed creature — named, in the fanciful way of the dragonfly world, a slaty skimmer — danced in the fabric.
From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2011
Mile on mile, freight cars stood empty on sidings, smokeless chimneys reared against the slaty sky.
From Time Magazine Archive
Splint′age, use of splints; Splint′-arm′our, armour made of splints or narrow overlapping plates; Splint′-coal, cannel-coal of slaty structure; Splint′er, a piece of wood, &c., split off.—v.t. and v.i. to split into splinters.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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