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Word | Clay |
water soaked soil; soft wet earth / a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired / A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities. / soft sticky earth that can be baked to make bricks or crockery / a stiff, sticky fine-grained earth, typically yellow, red, or bluish-gray in color and often forming an impermeable layer in the soil. It can be molded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics., | |
Usage | ⇒ This vase is made of china clay ⇒ One slope of the mound had clay loam soil and another had sandy loam. ⇒ A clay pot |
Synonyms | dirt, earth, loam, mud, soil, ground, cadaver, adobe, corpse, remains, stiff, earthen, ashes, alabaster, clod, dust, land, loess, marl, sod, |
Antonyms | rinse, wash, |
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