[uncountableU]TBCearth and straw that are made into bricks for building houses 土坯,砖坯
Examples from the Corpus
adobe• Included on the tour will be a straw-bale guest house, a rammed-earth home and studio, and a 1919 adobebungalow.• Even today many members of these tribes live in multi-occupation dwellings made from sun-driedmud bricks known as adobe.• After a while they make adobe bricks and build their houses by stages, one room followed by another.• Its sistermission in Tumacacori was built of adobe and has crumbled under the weight of the years.• How prevalent was the use of adobe as a building material?• Firedclay, such as pottery and baked mud-brick or adobe, is virtually indestructible if well fired.• Ahead of me I saw the cluster of small adobe homes Induk had told me about, nestled into the hillside.• Mr. Mendez shrugged and both of them turned to the adobe.
Originadobe
(1700-1800)SpanishArabicat-tub“the brick”, from Coptictobe“brick”