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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɑːd͡ʒɪlˈeɪʃəs/
• (General American) IPA: /ɑɹd͡ʒɪlˈeɪʃəs/}
• 韻: -eɪʃəs

形容詞

argillaceous (comparative more argillaceous, superlative most argillaceous)

1. (chiefly geology) Pertaining to clay; made of, containing, or resembling clay; clayey.
   • 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, The Atlantic:

     […] natural colossi from two to five hundred feet high, done in argillaceous sandstone or a singular species of conglomerate, all of which owe their existence almost entirely to the agency of wind.

   • 1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies, page 104:

     The gleam of the land is in its rocks, the fine-grained argillaceous rocks, here, not purple or grey, but green of living stone.

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