Look up: Teak


  1. teak
    [n] - hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees 2. [n] - tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood
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  2. Teak
    A strong and durable wood that doesn't shrink much and is comparatively easy to work. Valuable for many purposes on account of the small amount of shrinkage which takes place with seasoning.
    Found op http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/source/t/e/teak/source.html

  3. Teak
    A dark, heavy, oily wood of great strength and durability, usually a distinct rich reddish brown in colour.
    Found op http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/marconi/collection/glossary.php

  4. teak
    One of the hardest, strongest and most durable furniture timbers of all. True teak is from India and Burma, but other similar woods are wrongly called teak. It is usually golden-brown in colour and darkens with age to medium and deep brown, sometimes with dark markings. It is slightly oily and smell...
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  5. Teak
    Teak noun [ Malayalm tekku .] (Botany) A tree of East Indies ( Tectona grandis ) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree. [ Written also ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/17

  6. teak
    <botany> A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree. ... Alternative forms: teek African teak, a tree (Oldfieldia Africana) of Sierra Leone; also, its very heavy ...
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  7. teak
    Tectona grandis noun tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood
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  8. teak
    noun hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding
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  1. Teak
    • (n.) A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree.
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  2. teak
    large deciduous tree of the family Verbenaceae, or its wood, one of the most valuable timbers. Teak has been widely used in India for more than 2,000 ... [6 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/19

  3. Teak
    Teak is the common name for the tropical hardwood tree species Tectona grandis and its wood products. Tectona grandis is native to south and southeast Asia, mainly India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Burma, but is naturalized and cultivated in many countries, including those in Africa and the Caribbean...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teak

  4. teak
    teak, tall deciduous tree (Tectona grandis) of the family Verbenaceae (verbena family), native to India and Malaysia but now widely cultivated in other tropical areas. Unfortunately, the wood of plantation teak is considered inferior to that of wild teak; consequently the wild populations are being ...
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  5. Teak
    Teak is the timber of the teak tree (Tectona grandis), and mainly comes from Myanmar (Burma). Teak is a moderately heavy, hard wood that is easily worked and tends not to shrink, warp or swell. Teak timber is resistant to termites and contains natural oils that retard decaying of the timber.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AT.HTM

  6. Teak
    Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical Asian timber tree of the family Verbenaceae.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/BT.HTM

  7. teak
    Tropical Asian timber tree with yellowish wood used in furniture and shipbuilding. (Tectona grandis, family Verbenaceae.)
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0014449.html

  8. teak
    1) Boat wood 2) Boatbuilding wood 3) Cedar alternative 4) Deck material 5) Deck wood 6) Deck-planking wood 7) Durable east indian wood 8) Durable wood 9) East indian 10) Fine wood 11) Flooring wood 12) Furniture mate...
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/teak/1

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