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clayeyness

noun

Etymology

From clayey + -ness.

  1. inherited from clǣig — “clayey”
  2. inherited from *gleh₁y-✻
  3. inherited from clǣġ — “clay”
  4. inherited from clei
  5. inherited from cleyy
  6. suffixed as clayeyness — “clayey + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being clayey.

    • […] it destroys acidity already in the soil, and prevents the evolution of more from stagnant water; it corrects excessive sandiness by its clay, and excessive clayeyness by its sand […]
    • This black soil is of superior richness probably owing to the mixture of particles of red soil, which, without changing the appearance and character of the black soil, lessen its clayeyness and increase its power of taking in water.
    • If it were possible to control these variables, then differences in clayeyness of fluvial sequences of different geological age might be apparent.

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