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# clayey

«clayey» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made of or full of clay, the sticky soil that is wet and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (clayey, clayier, clayiest)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clayey» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clayey/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.