slaty

adj — 2 senses

slaty

adj

UK /ˈsleɪti/

Etymology From slate + -y.

1

Resembling the rock slate.

Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars.1933-03, Clark Ashton Smith, "The Isle of the Torturers", Weird Tales

2

Of a light grey colour as slate.

But snow had now begun to fall out of a forbiddingly slaty-grey sky, and this seemed to depress both engine and crew.1949 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 192:

Derived terms: Bolivian slaty antshrike, great slaty woodpecker, Guianan slaty antshrike, Natterer's slaty antshrike, Peruvian slaty antshrike, Planalto slaty antshrike, slatily, slatiness, slaty-backed gull, slaty-breasted tinamou, slaty bristlefront, slaty-grey snake, slaty-legged crake, Sooretama slaty antshrike, western slaty antshrike

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