flaggy
1Origin of flaggy
1Words Nearby flaggy
Other definitions for flaggy (2 of 3)
Origin of flaggy
2Other definitions for flaggy (3 of 3)
abounding in, consisting of, or resembling flag plants.
Origin of flaggy
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How to use flaggy in a sentence
The beds below these are referred to the English Yoredale series, and include some flaggy sandstones.
Lower: flaggy hard sandstones (ganister), shales and thin coal seams.
And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.
Lorna Doone | R. D. BlackmoreHe was but a little man, and of no great strength of body; he had blackish haire, something flaggy, and I thinke his eies black.
Brief Lives (Vol. 1 of 2) | John AubreyIt was buried in the bottom of the deposit where the gravel rested on a flaggy limestone.
A Manual of Elementary Geology | Charles Lyell.
British Dictionary definitions for flaggy (1 of 2)
/ (ˈflæɡɪ) /
drooping; limp
British Dictionary definitions for flaggy (2 of 2)
/ (ˈflæɡɪ) /
made of or similar to flagstone
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