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# clayey

adjective (clayey, clayier, clayiest)

«clayey» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Made of or full of clay, the sticky soil that is wet and hard when dry: clayey soil. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clayey/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, a bank where birds build their nests, or where people scratch their names

### Examples

- The clayey soil stuck to our boots. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clayey/#x1)
- Swallows dug their nests in the clayey bank. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clayey/#x2)
- Clayey ground is hard to dig in wet weather. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clayey/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «clayey» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clayey/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«clayey» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/clayey.html) on Mova free.