adobe

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: a=do=be

CIDE DICTIONARY

adobe, n. [Sp.].

•  An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.  [1913 Webster]
•  Earth from which unburnt bricks are made.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

adobe, n.
1 an unburnt sun-dried brick.
2 the clay used for making such bricks.

Etymology

Sp. f. Arab.

THESAURUS

adobe

ashlar, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, bricks and mortar, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, clayey, clayish, clinker, concrete, covering materials, crock, crockery, earthy, enamelware, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagstone, flooring, glass, gumbo, jug, lath and plaster, loamy, marly, masonry, mortar, pavement, paving, paving material, plasters, porcelain, pot, pottery, prestressed concrete, refractory, roofage, roofing, siding, soily, stone, tile, tiling, urn, vase, walling

ROGET THESAURUS

adobe

Materials

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