ROOFING MATERIAL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Building material used in constructing roofs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("roofing material" is a kind of...):

building material (material used for constructing buildings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roofing material"):

roofing paper; tar paper (a heavy paper impregnated with tar and used as part of a roof for waterproofing)

slate; slating (thin layers of rock used for roofing)

thatch (plant stalks used as roofing material)

roofing tile; tile (a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing)