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Definition of Clayey

1. Adjective. Resembling or containing clay. "Argillaceous rocks"

2. Adjective. (used of soil) compact and fine-grained. "The clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated"

Definition of Clayey

1. a. Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

Definition of Clayey

1. Adjective. Resembling or containing clay. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clayey

1. resembling clay [adj CLAYIER, CLAYIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clayey

clay pipe clay sculpture clay shoveler's fracture clay up claybank claybanks claybed claybeds claybeg claycourt

claycourts claye clayed clayen clayes clayey (current term) clayeyness clayier clayiest clayiness

claying clayish clayishness claykicker clayless claylike claym claymated claymating claymation

Literary usage of Clayey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"The average ore contains 16 per cent, water of hydration, and the cyaniding of this hydrous clayey material offered unusual difficulties as compared with an ..."

2. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist, Wisconsin Geological Survey (1877)
"Heavy layer of brown-and-yellow-mottled limestone, which leaves on solution 2.2 per cent, of very fine clayey residue 1 .. 2. No good exposure 5 3. ..."

3. Elementary Geology by Ralph Stockman Tarr (1897)
"clayey Rocks. The fine clayey soil is an illustration of a third group of ... The clayey fragments may be moved by the wind and gathered into beds on the ..."

4. Report on the Valley Regions of Alabama: (Paleozoic Strata) by Henry McCalley (1897)
"They are made up of (a) The "red lands" or the red to brown calcareous sandy clayey loams that overlie and are derived from the usually siliceous and cherty ..."

5. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1826)
"These insensible passages from primitive, to transition soil, by clayey slate that becomes carburated, at the same time that it presents a concordant ..."

6. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1902)
"274 9 clayey blue shale 12 3 ... 287 0 clayey shale and sandstone 7 0 ... 294 0 clayey shale ... 300 6 clayey shale 6 6 ... 307 0 Shale and sandstone 4 0 . ..."

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