Adobe

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A building material consisting of clay mixed with straw or dung, fashioned into sun-dried bricks or used as mortar or plaster.
  • noun. A brick of this material.
  • noun. The clay or soil used in making this material.
  • noun. A structure built with adobe bricks.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The Mexican-Spanish name of the sun-dried brick in common use in countries of small rainfall and of inferior civilization.
  • noun. Clay or soil from which sun-dried bricks are made, or which is suitable for making them. In the quicksilver-mines of the Pacific coast, a brick made of the finer ores mixed with clay, for more convenient handling in the furnace.
  • Built or made of adobes or sundried bricks. Suitable for making sundried bricks: as, an adobe soil.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, .
  • noun. Earth from which unburnt bricks are made.
  • noun. Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
  • noun. A house made of adobe brick.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates
  • noun. the clay from which adobe bricks are made
  • Word Usage
    "Building your own little cozy adobe is a dream for many."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    brick  clay  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gobi  Jacobi  Nairobi  Obie  Okeechobee  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ashlar  biscuit  bisque  bowl  brick