adobe
/əˈdəʊbɪ/noun
mass noun
1- a kind of clay used as a building material, typically in the form of sun-dried bricks砖坯黏土（尤指晒干的土坯砖）：
as modifier adobe houses.土坯砖房。
1.1
- count noun a brick of such a type土砖。
1.2
- count noun US a building constructed from such material〈美〉土砖建筑。
词源
mid 18th cent.: from Spanish， from adobar 'to plaster'， from Arabic at-tūb, from al 'the' + tūb 'bricks'.