silty
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4.9
- adjective
- /ˈsɪlti/
:
fangoso
- Farmers prefer to plant crops in silty soil, which retains moisture and nutrients.
- silty loam
- silty sand
- silty water
Examples
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To a depth of 71 cm, the soil is light olive brown silty clay.
Academic text (1998) -
Typically, the surface area is dark grayish-brown silty clay about 25 cm thick.
Academic text (1998) -
Today, on the silty borders of the old glacial lake, near the modern city
Academic text (2002) -
I woke once and staggered to the water's edge to drink the silty water.
Fiction book (2000) -
Through the underbrush, she could catch a glimpse of the silty river.
Fiction book (2001) -
Typically, the surface is very dark brown silty clay that is about 36 cm thick.
Academic text (1998) -
Why would it choose tonight to disintegrate into the muddy, silty water below?
Fiction book (2002) -
The base soil is an easily eroded silty sand with some gravel.
Academic text (2001) -
The surface layer of this soil is dark grayish-brown silty clay, about 33 cm thick.
Academic text (1998) -
The draining of silty shallows added not a single hectare of new meadowland to the state farm.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
How Silty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Silty comes from silt, a word for very fine mud or sand that water leaves behind, and the ending -y means 'full of'. So something silty is 'full of silt', like water or soil that looks muddy after a flood.