Cherty vs Chesty - What's the difference?
cherty | chesty |
(geology, mineralogy) Containing chert.
* {{quote-book, year=1879, author=James Stevenson, title=Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Rudely shaped, of hard cherty rock, flat on the inner face, convex on the back. 2759. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Charles Darwin, title=A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World, chapter=, edition=
, passage=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. }}
* {{quote-journal, 1998, date=February 6, Chia-Wei Li et al., Precambrian Sponges with Cellular Structures, Science
, passage=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. }}
(of a woman) Having large breasts; busty.
(of a cough or cold) Not dry; involving the coughing of phlegm.
Coming from, or associated with, the chest.
As adjectives the difference between cherty and chesty
is that cherty is containing chert while chesty is having large breasts; busty.cherty
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(er)- a chesty''' cough; a '''chesty cold
- a deep chesty voice
