ARGILLITE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A sedimentary rock differing from shale in being bound by silica and from slate in having no slate cleavages

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("argillite" is a kind of...):

sedimentary rock (rock formed from consolidated clay sediments)

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