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Slaty

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Composed of or resembling slate.

adj. Having the color of slate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Resembling the mineral slate.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties, of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of being separated by splitting.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Resembling slate; having the nature or properties of slate: as, a slaty color or texture; a slaty feel.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of the color of slate or granite

Word Usage

"This cleavage is known as slaty cleavage, since it is most perfectly developed in fine-grained, homogeneous rocks, such as slates, which cleave to the thin, smooth-surfaced plates with which we are familiar in the slates used in roofing and for ciphering and blackboards."

Equivalent

neutral achromatic

Cross Reference

slaty cleavage slaty gneiss

Variant

slatiest slatier

Same Context

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