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   clay

   /kleɪ/

   noun

   • 1. a stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be moulded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics: "the soil is mainly clay"
   • ▪ sediment with particles smaller than silt, typically less than 0.002 mm. technical
   • ▪ a hardened clay surface for a tennis court: "she won more matches on clay than any other player"
   • ▪ the substance of the human body: literary "this lifeless clay"
   • 2. a European moth with yellowish-brown wings.

   Word Origin Old Englishclǣg, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch klei, also to cleave2 and climb.

   Derivatives

   • 1. clayish adjective
   • 2. claylike adjective

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