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Meaning of "slaty"
Slaty means resembling or consisting of slate
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- Resembling the mineral slate.
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Also they mostly have a slaty cleavage.
The back was slaty grey with a dull greenish gloss.
The flower buds are a slaty grey colour.
The male is slaty brown above with a white forehead and supercilium.
The abdominal surface is pearl or slaty coloured.
The ground colour is slaty grey with a slight violet tinge.
The undertail coverts and terminal tail band are slaty grey.
Abyssinian slaty flycatcher.
Slaty cleavage is superimposed upon the folds whether coplanar or noncoplanar with axial surfaces.
The legs were slaty grey.
Great slaty woodpecker.
The underparts are slaty in hue.
The resulting slaty cleavage is parallel to the axial plane of regional folds.
These seams are conformable with the slaty cleavage or schistosity.
The young great slaty woodpeckers probably stay with their parents until the next breeding season.
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Mostly the Canberra Formation is slaty shale and mudstone.
Most of the slaty loams occur around Kejimkujik Lake.
In Charnwood Forest also the tuffs are slaty and cleaved.
The beak is slaty black, and the cere is black.
Its bill is black, and its feet are slaty gray.
Locally, the great slaty woodpecker prefers sprawling stands of dipterocarp and teak trees.
The female has a smaller red wing patch, and more slaty head.
The rest of the upperparts were slaty brown, becoming rufous on the rump and flanks.
The slaty tanager ( Creurgops dentatus ) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
The forests are also important for great slaty woodpecker and white-naped woodpecker.
Slaty brush finch - Atlapetes schistaceus.
The church floor is covered with slaty slabs, while a double-rised tiled roof covers the church.
Slaty egrets are almost always found in small numbers, e.g. rarely more than c.
Maritima is a wingless animal, typically up to 3 mm long, and dark slaty blue in colour.
The slaty antwren ("Myrmotherula schisticolor") is a small passerine bird in the antbird family.
Normally, the nominate subspecies is the darkest, most slaty gray race.
The slaty becard ( " Pachyramphus spodiurus " ) is a species of bird in the Tityridae family.
The fish is otherwise silvery with a broad, slaty mid-dorsal stripe.
The slaty monarch ( " Mayrornis lessoni " ) is a species of bird in the Monarchidae family.
It contains the following species: Stresemann's bristlefront (Merulaxis stresemanni) Slaty bristlefront Merulaxis ater.
The slaty cuckooshrike ("Coracina schistacea") is a species of bird in the Campephagidae family.
A number of animals are named after Johann Natterer, including Natterer 's slaty antshrike and Natterer 's bat.
The slaty gnateater ( " Conopophaga ardesiaca " ) is a species of bird in the Conopophagidae family.
A mysterious bird, formerly misidentified as a slaty brush finch and only described in 2007.
The slaty bunting ( " Latoucheornis siemsseni " ) is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family.
The north-eastern race E. c. vincenti is very dark above, and slaty below.
The great slaty woodpecker ( " Mulleripicus pulverulentus " ) is a species of bird in the Picidae family.
India Slaty - breasted rail.
The slaty finch ("Haplospiza rustica") is a bird species in the family Thraupidae formerly in Emberizidae.
Leaves, open ; dull slaty grey-green, slightly pubescent ; midribs slightly paler than leaves.
The slaty elaenia ( " Elaenia strepera " ) is a species of bird in the Tyrannidae family.
The little slaty flycatcher ("Ficedula basilanica") is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.
The planalto slaty antshrike ("Thamnophilus pelzelni") is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.
The Sooretama slaty antshrike ("Thamnophilus ambiguus") is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.
The northern slaty antshrike ("Thamnophilus punctatus") is a species of bird in the Thamnophilidae family.
