"slaty" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "slate + -y",
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      "form": "slatier",
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      "form": "slatiest",
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        {
          "word": "Bolivian slaty antshrike"
        },
        {
          "word": "Guianan slaty antshrike"
        },
        {
          "word": "Natterer's slaty antshrike"
        },
        {
          "word": "Peruvian slaty antshrike"
        },
        {
          "word": "Planalto slaty antshrike"
        },
        {
          "word": "slatily"
        },
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          "word": "slatiness"
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        {
          "word": "slaty-backed gull"
        },
        {
          "word": "slaty-breasted tinamou"
        },
        {
          "word": "slaty bristlefront"
        },
        {
          "word": "Sooretama slaty antshrike"
        },
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          "word": "western slaty antshrike"
        }
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          "ref": "1933-03, Clark Ashton Smith, \"The Isle of the Torturers\", Weird Tales",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 192",
          "text": "But snow had now begun to fall out of a forbiddingly slaty-grey sky, and this seemed to depress both engine and crew.",
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        "Resembling the mineral slate."
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      "word": "Bolivian slaty antshrike"
    },
    {
      "word": "Guianan slaty antshrike"
    },
    {
      "word": "Natterer's slaty antshrike"
    },
    {
      "word": "Peruvian slaty antshrike"
    },
    {
      "word": "Planalto slaty antshrike"
    },
    {
      "word": "slatily"
    },
    {
      "word": "slatiness"
    },
    {
      "word": "slaty-backed gull"
    },
    {
      "word": "slaty-breasted tinamou"
    },
    {
      "word": "slaty bristlefront"
    },
    {
      "word": "Sooretama slaty antshrike"
    },
    {
      "word": "western slaty antshrike"
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    {
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    },
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        "superlative"
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          "ref": "1933-03, Clark Ashton Smith, \"The Isle of the Torturers\", Weird Tales",
          "text": "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."
        },
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          "ref": "1949 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 192",
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