1. a thatched hut found in Mexico and the southwestern United States
Usage: regional

Examples

• The family lived in a simple jacal made of adobe and palm fronds.
• Traditional jacals provided shelter for rural communities in northern Mexico.
• The museum displayed a replica of a 19th-century jacal.
• After the storm, they rebuilt their jacal using local materials.
• The anthropologist studied the construction methods of ancient jacals.