Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • . Consisting of or of the nature of clay; abounding with clay; mixed with clay; like clay.
  • Bedaubed or besmeared with clay.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

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  • adjective Resembling or containing clay.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
  • adjective resembling or containing clay

Etymologies

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From clay +‎ -y.

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Examples

  • Soils that contain a lot of clay are called clayey soils.

    4.1 What is soil? 1995

  • You can make deal that they must provide all material such as clayey soil by themselves.

    Mug Plate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • Again, Portland cement is frequently used as a stabilizer in the preparation of soil blocks, yet it is the wrong choice for certain soils such as clayey soils or black cotton soils.

    Chapter 8 1985

  • Sin, a city in Egypt, called by the Greeks Pelusium, which means, as does also the Hebrew name, "clayey" or "muddy," so called from the abundance of clay found there.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • Robert W. Carter, of Sabine Hall_, on the Rappahanock, whose land is principally of that kind of clayey loam common upon that river, once rich but badly worn by cultivation, is so well satisfied that it is profitable to make rich lands still more rich, he buys annually 30 or 40 tons of the best in market.

    Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers Solon Robinson 1841

  • But we have to say that the pedestal we had TED on is looking kinda clayey.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Aloha suddenly became palpable and thus much more real — the odd sponginess of the cold wet earth, neither clayey nor sandy; the frail stringy resistance of the webby brown biofilms before he plucked them off his trouser legs or jacket sleeves.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • But there was no rest in any part; the canoe descended deeper and deeper into the gulley, through which the river flows between high clayey banks, as the water subsided, and with the glowing sun overhead we felt at midday as if in a furnace.

    Weatherwatch: heat and mosquitoes in the Amazon 2011

  • Almost half the reserve area is formed of marismas - freshwater marshes on accumulated clayey silt - where the Guadalquivir river delta has been deflected and ponded by a coastal sand spit (~27,000 ha).

    Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

  • Extensive playas occur and are nearly flat, clayey, and salty.

    Ecoregions of Utah (EPA) 2009

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  • A graceless word

    October 19, 2007

  • When did they start letting six-year-olds write the dictionary?

    October 19, 2007

  • They'd do better than a few grown-ups I know. ;-)

    October 19, 2007

  • But -- Ned Hall, there ought to be a water-furrow across this land: it's a nasty, stiff, clayey, dauby bit of ground, and thou and I must fall to, come next Monday -- I beg your pardon, cousin Manning -- and there's old Jem's cottage wants a bit of thatch; you can do that job tomorrow while I am busy. — Cousin Phillis

    July 8, 2010