[uh-doh-bee] 
| 1. | sun-dried brick made of clay and straw, in common use in countries having little rainfall. |
| 2. | a yellow silt or clay, deposited by rivers, used to make bricks. |
| 3. | a building constructed of adobe. |
| 4. | a dark, heavy soil, containing clay. |
| a·do·be (ə-dō'bē) n.
[Spanish, from Arabic aṭ-ṭūba, the brick : al-, the + ṭūba, a brick, singulative of ṭūb, bricks (from Coptic tōbe, tōōbe, from Egyptian ḏbt, brick).] |