Clayey vs Claylike - What's the difference?
clayey | claylike | Synonyms |
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,
*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:
Claylike is a synonym of clayey.
As adjectives the difference between clayey and claylike
is that clayey is resembling or containing clay while claylike is resembling clay.clayey
English
Adjective
(er)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.
- Limestone, of course, is calcium carbonate, and thus chemically utterly different in composition from the clayey rocks below and the hard, pebbly ones above.