Adobe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A sun-dried, unburned brick of clay and straw.
  • n. The clay or soil from which this brick is made.
  • n. A structure built with this type of brick.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
  • n. A house made of adobe brick.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, .
  • n. Earth from which unburnt bricks are made.
  • n. Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The Mexican-Spanish name of the sun-dried brick in common use in countries of small rainfall and of inferior civilization.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates
  • n. the clay from which adobe bricks are made
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    brick    clay   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
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