cherty

adj
/ˈt͡ʃɜɹti/

Etymology

From chert + -y.

Definitions

  1. Containing chert.

    • Rudely shaped, of hard cherty rock, flat on the inner face, convex on the back. 2759.
    • Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine.
    • It is represented by a phosphate-dolostone sequence in Wengan, where it is 33 to 55 m thick and consists mainly of dark phosphate, cherty phosphate, chert, and gray dolomite.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cherty. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA