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clayey

/kley-ee/US // ˈkleɪ i //

粘土质,粘土,黏土质,粘土质的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    clay·i·er, clay·i·est.

    • : covered or smeared with clay.
    • : like or resembling clay.
    • : full of or abounding in clay.

Examples

  • Thus one saw only their heads which seemed to protrude from the clayey earth and were almost as yellow, with their closed eyes.

  • The soil is clayey, and thinly bestrewed with alpine grass, intermingled with syngenesious and cruciferous plants.

  • In the case of low-lying lands they are particularly suited for very damp clayey soils.

  • The river, not a wide one, swirled between high, clayey banks fringed with dense bush.

  • Fifteen feet up the bluff side a fallen dead tree projected its rotted, broken roots, like snaggled teeth, from the clayey bank.