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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Adobe

/(ȧ*dō"bā̇)/ · A·do·be · IPA /əˈdoʊ.bi/
01 n. An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
  1. 1.
    An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
  2. 2.
    Earth from which unburnt bricks are made.[Western U. S.]
  3. 3.
    Alluvial and playa clays of desert and arid regions, differing from ordinary clays of humid regions in containing carbonates and other soluble minerals.(Geol.)