clayey

adjective4

1. •
   Composed of clay or containing (much) clay; clayish.

   • The shores of the rivers and creeks are chiefly planted with coffee, to the distance of about 30 miles from the sea; thence 30 miles farther up, the soil becomes clayey and more fit for sugar[-]canes. — 1812
2. •
   Resembling clay; claylike, clayish.

   • Death, grim Death, will fold / Me, in his leaden Arms, and press me close / To his cold clayie Breast: […] — 1697
3. •
   Covered or dirtied with clay.

   • Wheat-fields, one would think, cannot come to grow untilled; no man made clayey, or made weary thereby;—unless machinery will do it? — 1837
4. •
   (figurative) Of the human body, as contrasted with the soul; bodily, human, mortal.

   • [A]mid these tombs, / Cold as their clayey tenants, know, my heart / Must never grow to stone! — 1796