Shale

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A fissile rock composed of layers of claylike, fine-grained sediments.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
  • n. A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
  • v. To take off the shell or coat of.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
  • n. A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
  • v. To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A shell or husk.
  • To take off the shell or coat of.
  • n. Clay, or argillaceous material, which has a fissile structure, or which splits readily into thin leaves.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
  • Hypernym
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    Hyponym
    Form
    shaley    shaly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shell   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bayle    Braille    Dail    Dale    Gael    Gail    Galle    Gayle    Hale    Jarrell   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    limestone    basalt    gneiss    gravel    quartz    marl    silt    lava    freestone    conglomerate