"cherty" meaning in English

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          "word": "chertiness"
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          "ref": "1879, James Stevenson, Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879:",
          "text": "Rudely shaped, of hard cherty rock, flat on the inner face, convex on the back. 2759.",
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          "ref": "1913, Charles Darwin, A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World:",
          "text": "Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty, in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine.",
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          "ref": "1998 February 6, Chia-Wei Li et al., “Precambrian Sponges with Cellular Structures”, in Science, volume 279, number 5352, →DOI, pages 879–882:",
          "text": "It is represented by a phosphate-dolostone sequence in Wengan, where it is 33 to 55 m thick and consists mainly of dark phosphate, cherty phosphate, chert, and gray dolomite.",
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        "Containing chert."
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        "(geology, mineralogy) Containing chert."
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  "word": "cherty"
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