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clayey
[ kley-ee ]
adjective
- 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.
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.
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