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Peaty vs Platy - What's the difference?

peaty | platy |

As adjectives the difference between peaty and platy

is that peaty is of or resembling peat, especially the taste or smell while platy is resembling plates.

As a noun platy is

a tropical fish of the genus Xiphophorus (also including the swordtails..

peaty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Of or resembling peat, especially the taste or smell.
  • * 2004 , Matthew Teller (editor), The Rough Guide to Britain , page 1120,
    • The ten-year-old Ardbeg is traditionally considered the saltiest, peatiest malt on Islay (and that's saying something).
  • * 2009 , Jason Kawall, 17: Whisky and the Wild: On Preserving Methods and Distilleries'', Fritz Allhoff, Marcus P. Adams (editors), ''Whiskey and Philosophy: A Small Batch of Spirited Ideas , page 277,
    • Many are eagerly anticipating Bruichladdich's Octomore line—intended to be the peatiest whisky from Islay (with a peating level of 129 phenol ppm in the malt in 2003).
  • * 2014 , John E. Conway, Buckrammer's Tales: The Continuing Catboat Summers Adventures , page 43,
    • After dinner, Ned revealed that he had snuck aboard a bottle of Ardbeg Uigeadail, one of the smokiest, peatiest , single malt Scotches this side of Edinburgh; a spirit “as deep and mysterious as the loch that gives it its name" and one that smacks of distilled pine tar.
  • Containing peat.
  • * 1977 , Derek A. Ratcliffe (editor), A Nature Conservation Review , Volume 2, page 270,
    • The Drumochter Hills are a breeding haunt of dotterel, ptarmigan occur at high density, and where the ground is peatier , especially east of the Pass, golden plover and dunlin breed in company with these other birds at around 900 m.
  • * 2004 , Patrick J. Michaels, Meltdown , 2005, page 177,
    • The Palmer Drought Severity Index for Minnesota, our peatiest state, shows a tendency for wetter, not drier conditions.
  • * 2013 , Ronald Turnbull, Walking Highland Perthshire , page 11,
    • Ben Feskineth lay undiscovered in deepest, peatiest Perthshire.

    Related terms

    * peat * peat bog * peat moss * peatiness

    platy

    English

    Etymology 1

    (plate) + (-y)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Resembling plates.
  • (heraldry) Of a field semy of plates.
  • (geology, mineralogy) Composed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral.
    • Related terms
    * plate * plated

    Etymology 2

    Noun

  • A (tropical fish) of the genus Xiphophorus (also including the swordtails.)
    • I had a mixed community aquarium with several tetras, two mollies, some corydoras catfish, and a platy from a previous tank.
    Synonyms
    * platyfish

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