Shaley vs Shale - What's the difference?
shaley | shale | Derived terms |
A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
* Chapman
(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 23, author=Patricia Leigh Brown, title=The Window Box Gets Some Tough Competition, work=New York Times
, passage=As on all large green roofs, the soil is not dirt exactly but a gravel-like growing medium of granulated pumice, shales , clays and other minerals.}}
To take off the shell or coat of.
Shaley is a derived term of shale.
As a adjective shaley
is pertaining to or resembling shale.As a noun shale is
a shell or husk; a cod or pod.As a verb shale is
to take off the shell or coat of.shale
English
(wikipedia shale)Noun
(en noun)- the green shales of a bean
citation
