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Slaty vs Platy - What's the difference?

slaty | platy |

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)
  • Resembling the mineral slate.
  • * 1933-03 , Clark Ashton Smith, , Weird Tales :
  • 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.

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    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.
  • 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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