Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it: as, “clayish water,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.
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- adjective Resembling
clay . - adjective Containing clay.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One thing I did learn by experience with lavender in my garden is that they hate having "wet feet" so, with clayish soil, add loads and loads of fine gravel to improve the drainage.
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Measurements of the magnetic value of the different soil types inside the pit by Branko Music proved that this red clayish soil was highly magnetic, whereas the values of the other soil types were more average.
Tepe Düzen: Report 1 « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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Tolerates clayish soil, & will spread fastest in sandy soil.
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On the northeastern part of the pit, along the eastern side of the trench, a red clayish soil was found.
Tepe Düzen: Report 1 « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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One thing I did learn by experience with lavender in my garden is that they hate having "wet feet" so, with clayish soil, add loads and loads of fine gravel to improve the drainage.
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In addition, there are different edaphic communities such as the woods of Prosopis scrubs of Baccharis salicifolia (chilca) and Tessaria dodonaefolia (pájaro bobo) in humid places, Atriplex in clayish soils and Suaeda divaricata and Allenrolfea vaginata in salty soils.
Argentine Monte 2007
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The first concentration consisted of two vessels above one another, while the other concentration existed of a very compact clayish layer, which was almost impossible to remove.
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This floor substrate consists of a very clayish layer with lots of material.
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Instead, on top of the older substratum underneath the church floor, we found a thin clayish layer of soil.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Apollo Klarios Sanctuary Report 2 2003
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Many sherds from different periods (the last belong to the sixth century) and a rather large amount of bones were retrieved as well, while the composition of the layer had all the characteristics of a fill (hard, clayish layers of different colors and mixed material).
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Lower Agora Report 11 2003
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