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What is the noun for clay?

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clay
  1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  2. An earth material with ductile qualities.
  3. (tennis) A tennis court surface.
  4. (biblical) The material of the human body.
  5. (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
  6. (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
  7. (Internet) Land or territory of a country or other political region.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “You can apply a layer of bentonite clay to seal the soil or lay a synthetic liner.”
      “It had always been understood that May was of a different clay, and old John Edgley and the boys had always paid her a kind of crude respect.”
claystone
  1. (geology) sedimentary rock composed of fine, clay particles
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Sequence IV includes strata from the base of the bauxitic claystone below Seam 2 of the Heshan Formation to the top of the Dalong Formation.”
      “A number of brown or dark-grey mud-stone and claystone beds have also been reported in the Lang Bay area in British Columbia.”
      “All tyrannosaurid and hadrosaur bones lie horizontally within a 20 cm thick blocky, green claystone with occasional calcitic nodules and vertical to subvertical burrows.”
clayiness
  1. Alternative spelling of clayeyness
clayishness
  1. The quality of being clayish.
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clayfield
  1. A field from which clay is dug up.
clayeyness
  1. The quality of being clayey.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “If it were possible to control these variables, then differences in clayeyness of fluvial sequences of different geological age might be apparent.”
claye
  1. Obsolete spelling of clay
claybed
  1. A bed of clay.
clayware
  1. Articles made from clay.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Storage racks and cabinets are necessary for drying clayware and storing firing supplies.”
      “Thus for serious heart-to-heart talks with close friends choose solid, earthy pottery and clayware.”
      “At 73, he is one of just two potters left in this village famous for its clayware,, and he knows his art will not outlive him by long.”
clayfields
  1. plural of clayfield
claystones
claywares
  1. plural of clayware
claybeds
  1. plural of claybed
clays
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