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A building material made chiefly of clay or earth.

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  • The remaining "tapia" woodlands, in the southwest of the ecoregion are restricted in distribution.
  • It was built of "tapia," consisting of equal parts of lime, raw oyster shells, sand, and water, forming a paste or "batter," as the negroes called it, which was poured...
  • Lake Alaotra) and the "tapia" forest of the central highlands between 800-1600 m and in the dry southwest portion of the ecoregion.
  • Leaving a garden on the left, surrounded by a high tapia wall, we crossed
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