adobe, adobe brick
(noun) sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates
adobe
(noun) the clay from which adobe bricks are made
Source: WordNet® 3.1
adobe (usually uncountable, plural adobes)
An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
• Star Wars script
The earth from which such bricks are made.
A house made of adobe brick.
• mudbrick (definition 1)
• EABOD, abode
Source: Wiktionary
A*do"be, n. Etym: [Sp.]
Definition: An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 January 2025
(noun) memorial consisting of a very large stone forming part of a prehistoric structure (especially in western Europe)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
