Word

clay, n.
(clays)
freq. cnt. 11

a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
<noun.substance> freq. cnt.: 11 freq. cnt.: 11

clay

semantic pointers

substance holonym

brick pottery, clayware tile, roofing tile

hyponym

adobe argil china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba red clay pipeclay, terra alba bentonite fireclay Kitty Litter potter's clay, potter's earth daub

substance meronym

silicon, Si, atomic number 14

hypernym

dirt, soil

the dead body of a human being
<noun.body> freq. cnt.: 23 freq. cnt.: 22 freq. cnt.: 1

cadaver clay corpse remains stiff

sample sentences

"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"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

cadaveric cadaverous

lexical pointers

domain of synset (usage)

slang

semantic pointers

hypernym

body, dead body

hyponym

cremains

water soaked soil; soft wet earth
<noun.substance> freq. cnt.: 23 freq. cnt.: 23

clay mud

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

muddy mud mud

semantic pointers

hyponym

bleaching clay, bleaching earth mud pie slop, mire

hypernym

dirt, soil