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
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.
From Old Flies in New Dresses How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies by Walker, Charles Edward
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