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Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.

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  1. n. Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.
  2. n. a sedimentary rock differing from shale in being bound by silica and from slate in having no slate cleavages
  3. Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc. -- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a.
  4. Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluishor blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.-- Ar`gil*lit"ic, a.
  5. n. a sedimentary rock differing from shale in being bound by silica and from slate in having no slate cleavages