clay
1. a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired (Freq. 11)
• Hypernyms:
soil, dirt
• Hyponyms:
adobe, argil, china clay, china stone, kaolin,
kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba, red clay, pipeclay, bentonite,
fireclay, Kitty Litter, potter's clay, potter's earth, daub
• Substance Holonyms:
brick, tile, roofing tile, pottery, clayware
• Substance Meronyms:
silicon, Si, atomic number 14
2. water soaked soil;
soft wet earth
• Syn:
mud
• Derivationally related forms:
muddy (for: mud), mud (for: mud)
• Hypernyms:
soil, dirt
• Hyponyms:
bleaching clay, bleaching earth, mud pie, slop, mire
3. the dead body of a human being
- the cadaver was intended for dissection
- the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse
- the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river
- honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay
• Syn:
cadaver, corpse, stiff, remains
• Derivationally related forms:
cadaverous (for: cadaver), cadaveric (for: cadaver)
• Usage Domain:
slang (for: stiff)
• Hypernyms:
body, dead body
• Hyponyms:
cremains
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