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glei

glei is the alternative form of gley.

Meaning of gley

Noun

gley (plural gleys)

  1. (soil science) A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.
    Synonyms:
    gleysol, gleisol

See all 3 meanings of gley

Forms of glei

Noun
pluralgleis
Verb
third-person singular presentgleis
present participlegleiing
past participlegleied
pastgleied

Questions about glei

What is glei the alternative form of?
Glei is the alternative form of gley.

Words near glei in the dictionary

  1. Gleghorn
  2. Gleghorns
  3. glegly
  4. glegness
  5. glegs
  6. glei
  7. Gleich
  8. Gleich's syndrome
  9. gleichenia
  10. gleicheniaceous
  11. gleichenias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glei (page history and authors); gley (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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