adobe
An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
Example
“Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.”
Other meanings
The earth from which such bricks are made.
A house made of adobe brick.
A kind of
- clay
Related words
- adobelike
- superadobe
- adobe bread
- adobe lily
Word history
From Arabic "طوب" (اَلطُّوب).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “adobe” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.