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Argillaceous

//ɑːd͡ʒɪlˈeɪʃəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to clay; made of, containing, or resembling clay; clayey.

    "[…] natural colossi from two to five hundred feet high, done in argillaceous sandstone or a singular species of conglomerate, all of which owe their existence almost entirely to the agency of wind."

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling or containing clay wordnet

Etymology

From Latin argillaceus, from argilla (“clay”), from Ancient Greek ἄργιλλος (árgillos, “white clay, potter's earth”), from ἀργός (argós, “white”).

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