Slaty vs Platy - What's the difference?
slaty | platy |
Resembling the mineral slate.
* 1933-03 , Clark Ashton Smith, , Weird Tales :
Resembling plates.
(heraldry) Of a field semy of plates.
(geology, mineralogy) Composed of thin plate-like pieces of rock or mineral.
A (tropical fish) of the genus Xiphophorus (also including the swordtails.)
As adjectives the difference between slaty and platy
is that slaty is resembling the mineral slate while platy is resembling plates.As a noun platy is
a (tropical fish) of the genus xiphophorus (also including the swordtails).slaty
English
Adjective
(er)- Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars.
Anagrams
*platy
English
Etymology 1
(plate) + (-y)Adjective
(-)Etymology 2
Noun
- I had a mixed community aquarium with several tetras, two mollies, some corydoras catfish, and a platy from a previous tank.