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nitic

nitic adjective: having a reasonable amount of clay, but that falls apart into flat-edged geometrical forms that have shiny faces.

Adjective

nitic (not comparable)

  1. Having a reasonable amount of clay, but that falls apart into flat-edged geometrical forms that have shiny faces

Origin of nitic

According to the FAO, it comes from Latin nitidus (“shiny”).

Questions about nitic

What does nitic mean?
Nitic means having a reasonable amount of clay, but that falls apart into flat-edged geometrical forms that have shiny faces.
What part of speech is nitic?
Nitic is an adjective.

Words near nitic in the dictionary

  1. nithiocyamine
  2. Nithsdale
  3. Nithsdales
  4. NITian
  5. NITians
  6. nitic
  7. nitid
  8. nitidine
  9. nitidines
  10. nitidity
  11. nitidous

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