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Clayey vs Clayed - What's the difference?

clayey | clayed |

As adjectives the difference between clayey and clayed

is that clayey is resembling or containing clay while clayed is containing clay.

As a verb clayed is

(clay).

clayey

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Resembling or containing clay.
  • * 1812 , Antonio de Alcedo and George Alexander Thompson (translator), The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies , vol. 2, page 13, “Demerara” (J. Carpenter):
    • The shores of the rivers and creeks are chiefly planted with coffee, to the distance of about 30 miles from the sea : thence 30 miles farther up, the soil becomes clayey and more fit for sugar-canes.
  • *1851 ,
  • *:Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if, darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 85:
    • Limestone, of course, is calcium carbonate, and thus chemically utterly different in composition from the clayey rocks below and the hard, pebbly ones above.

    Synonyms

    * clayish

    Anagrams

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    clayed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Containing clay.
  • * 1896 , O. E. Meinzer, R. F, Hare, Geological Survey (U.S.), Water-Supply Paper 343: Geology and Water Resources of Tularosa Basin, New Mexico , page 201,
    • The soil of this belt is somewhat gravelly in the northeastern corner of the township and becomes more clayed toward the southwest.
  • * 1981 , Botanical Society of South Africa, Veld & Flora , Volumes 70-72, page 52,
    • The resultant soils are generally wetter, more clayed and compacted.
  • * 1997 , Geodinamica Acta , Volumes 10-11, page 184,
    • the matrix is yellow, more clayed but contains carbonate.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (clay)