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teak::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | tectona grandis |
| Type of | tree |
Examples of teak
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Wood used is either tun or teak, bridges are usually cut from one piece of bone.
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A truck loaded with teak logs runs on a road in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Sept.
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She was the first iron-hulled ironclad, with three skins of iron, teak and iron.
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Its pieces are made from materials such as kiln dried teak and stainless steel.
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Customers can specify the car with a brushed steel bonnet and a teak rear deck.
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We bought a beautiful teak chair many years ago and it is still in perfect shape.
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Down a back road in northern Yangon, a sagging teak house fights back the jungle.
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And I leave my towel on the teak table under the roof and step into the lap pool.
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Traditionally, satay kerbau is served on a plate covered with teak wood leaves.
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- Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding
- Tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood
- Teak (Tectona), is a genus of tropical hardwood trees in the mint family, Lamiaceae.Heywood, V.H., Brummitt, R.K., Culham, A. & Seberg, O. 2007: Flowering Plant Families of the World. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ...
- An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.); A tree of the species in the genus Tectona; A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood; Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood
- A tree that grows in Southern India and Southeast Asia. The wood is extremely hard (ordinary nails cannot be driven into it), very heavy (logs sink in water) and uniquely resistant to attack by insects, fungi and chemicals (it is not harmed by acids or alkalis). ...
- A dark, heavy, oily wood of great strength and durability, usually a distinct rich reddish brown in colour.
- Tropical hardwood popular for ship building and outdoor furniture construction.
- A durable East Indian hardwood with a yellowish-brown hue used in furniture construction.
- Wood from trees in southeastern Asia, India, and Burma that is dark, heavy, and particularly resistant to attack of insects; used for exterior construction, plywood, flooring, and decorative paneling.
