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clayey
or clay·ish
[ kley-ee ]
adjective
, clay·i·er, clay·i·est.
- covered or smeared with clay.
- like or resembling clay.
- full of or abounding in clay.
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Thus one saw only their heads which seemed to protrude from the clayey earth and were almost as yellow, with their closed eyes.
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The soil is clayey, and thinly bestrewed with alpine grass, intermingled with syngenesious and cruciferous plants.
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In the case of low-lying lands they are particularly suited for very damp clayey soils.
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The river, not a wide one, swirled between high, clayey banks fringed with dense bush.
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Fifteen feet up the bluff side a fallen dead tree projected its rotted, broken roots, like snaggled teeth, from the clayey bank.
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