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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Lichens for the herbarium should, whenever possible, be sought for on a slaty or laminated rock, so as to procure them on flat thin pieces of the same, suitable for mounting.
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Thus in the Willow-fly, though the anterior pair of wings are of a brownish colour, they appear of a dark slaty hue when the fly is seen crawling about.
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The Black is not the only valuable race of Spanish fowl; there is, also, the Gray, or Speckled, of a slaty gray color, with white legs.
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Description.—Above nearly uniform slaty grey, below paler, whiter on the middle of the belly; bill dark horn-colour, feet clear brown: whole length 6·0 inches, wing 3·6, tail 2·6.
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The highest parts of the Mount form a ridge extending S.E. and N.W., being a succession of strata of slaty rock, dipping to the eastward, at an angle of 15� or 20� from the horizon.
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