clayey

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
clay/kleɪ/

▶noun

• 1 a stiff, sticky fine-grained impermeable earth that can be moulded when wet and baked to make bricks and pottery.

• 2 literary the substance of the human body: this lifeless clay.

– derivatives
clayey adjective,
clayish adjective.

– origin OE clǣg, of W. Gmc origin; rel. to cleave2 and climb.