argillaceous

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/ɑːd͡ʒɪlˈeɪʃəs/

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/ɑːd͡ʒɪlˈeɪʃəs/ · /ɑɹd͡ʒɪlˈeɪʃəs/

Definition of argillaceous

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adj

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.”
“The gleam of the land is in its rocks, the fine-grained argillaceous rocks, here, not purple or grey, but green of living stone.”

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

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