clayey
1Clayey — Clay ey, a. Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay. [1913 Webster] …
2clayey — [klā′ē] adj. clayier, clayiest 1. of, smeared with, or full of clay 2. like clay: also clayish …
3clayey — adjective Resembling or containing clay. The shores of the rivers and creeks are chiefly planted with coffee, to the distance of about 30 miles from the sea : thence 30 miles farther up, the soil becomes clayey and more fit for sugar canes<! word …
4clayey — adj. Clayey is used with these nouns: ↑soil …
5clayey — clay ► NOUN 1) a sticky impermeable earth that can be moulded when wet and baked to make bricks and pottery. 2) literary the substance of the human body. DERIVATIVES clayey adjective. ORIGIN Old English, related to CLEAVE(Cf. ↑cleave) and CLIMB …
6clayey — adjective 1. resembling or containing clay argillaceous rocks • Syn: ↑argillaceous • Ant: ↑arenaceous (for: ↑argillaceous) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …
7clayey — adjective see clay …
8clayey — /klay ee/, adj., clayier, clayiest. 1. covered or smeared with clay. 2. like or resembling clay. 3. full of or abounding in clay. Also, clayish. [bef. 1050; ME cleii, OE claeig; see CLAY1, EY1] * * * …
9clayey — clay·ey || kleɪɪ adj. pertaining to clay, like clay …
10clayey — adj clayish, claylike, argillaceous, argillitic, Obs. loamy, earthy; pasty, gummy, sticky, adhesive, gluey, viscid, viscous, viscoid; plastic, fictile, malleable, moldable, formable; tractable, yielding, pliant, flexible …
