Durability.
The word straw can be a noun or an adjective depending on how it is used.Some examples are below.She wore a big, straw hat. (Straw in this sentence is an adjective describing the word hat.)The boy drank milk from a straw. (In this sentence, straw is a noun.)
Where do you keep all your crops? Do you have any Straw?
The collective nouns for straw (plant fiber) are a clutchof straw, a bundle of straw, a truss of straw.The collective noun for straws (drinking) is a bundle of straws.
There is one syllable in the word 'straw'.
straw hair -Stramen signifies straw and pila signifies hair.
they lived in straw houses but that blew over. they lived in stick houses but that knocked over. they then lived in brick houses but that blew UP. :( they then lived in the streets but died of the bubonic plague.
Wood, brick, adobe, straw, etc.
Straw thatch or mud-brick.
wood and straw mainly
straw brick and metal
the city houses are made out of brick where as the village houses are made out of mud and straw
Romanians mostly live on farms and huts. they are made out of straw or brick.
The Three Little Pigs used different materials for their houses: straw, sticks, and bricks. The first pig built his house with straw, the second one used sticks, and the third one built a sturdy house with bricks to protect themselves from the wolf.
Adobe houses were made of adobe bricks that is a material made of clay, sand, water, and a fibrous material like straw or sticks with manure. The bricks were formed and dried in the sun. Adobe is also known as mud brick.
Sometimes in the past (and still in some places in the world) bricks were made of straw, mud, and clay. The straw added extra strength or fiber to the brick and gave the mud and clay a better texture to shape a brick out of. You could subsitute straw with hay and make bricks out of that, thus giving you the needed material to lay a old fashioned cobbled or brick street.
mudThe houses were made out of bricks that were made of mud and straw. They put a mixture of mud and straw in a brick mold and left it in the sun to dry out.
mud! straw can also be used to make the brick stronger