Usually means: Containing or resembling hard silica.
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  1. cherty: Merriam-Webster
  2. cherty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cherty: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cherty: Vocabulary.com
  5. cherty: Wordnik
  6. cherty: Wiktionary
  7. Cherty, cherty: Dictionary.com
  8. Cherty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. cherty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. cherty: Rhymezone
  11. Cherty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. cherty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. cherty: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cherty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Cherty: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cherty: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  (geology, mineralogy) Containing chert.

Similar:
chalky, charnockitic, chiastolitic, chertified, chalcedoneous, chorismitic, calcareoargillaceous, chlorian, Cretaceous, chloritic, more...

Opposite:
spongy, soft, pliable, flexible, yielding

Types:
limestone, chert, cherty limestone, more...

Adjectives:
gray, very, more, grained, massive, less, bedded, non, sparsely, dark, somewhat

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Similar:
chalky, charnockitic, chiastolitic, chertified, chalcedoneous, chorismitic, calcareoargillaceous, chlorian, Cretaceous, chloritic, more...

Opposite:
spongy, soft, pliable, flexible, yielding

Types:
limestone, chert, cherty limestone, more...

Adjectives:
gray, very, more, grained, massive, less, bedded, non, sparsely, dark, somewhat



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