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Definition of Adobelike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adobelike
Literary usage of Adobelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reconnoissance Soil Survey of the Lower San Joaquin Valley, California by James William Nelson, United States Bureau of Soils (1918)
"The soil immediately overlying the gravelly beds usually is adobelike and more
compact than the surface material. The gravelly substratum varies as in the ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Soils, United States Bureau of Chemistry, United States (1908)
"They are underlain by the bed rocks, sometimes separated from the overlying soil
by a thin stratum of adobelike material. The soils are frequently very ..."
3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Soils, United States Bureau of Chemistry, United States (1906)
"Much of the soil consists of a heavy adobelike soil characteristic of the valley
and locally known as "gumbo." The alkali in this valley is somewhat unique, ..."
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