teak
柚木,柚树,柚子,橡木
Definitions
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- : a large East Indian tree, Tectona grandis, of the verbena family, yielding a hard, durable, resinous, yellowish-brown wood used for shipbuilding, making furniture, etc.
- : the wood of this tree.
- : any of various similar trees or woods.
Examples
Choose from a bio ethanol or propane power, and a table made of teak or composite concrete for a look that’s just right for your outdoor decor.
While it may seem like you’re dropping a pretty penny, your patio setup will last longer if it’s made of iron, aluminum, or teak.
Here, table, highboy chairs, and screen—mahogany, cherry, teak—looked nervous and disproportioned.
Hilda stabbed a great crisp fallen teak leaf with her parasol, and spent the grimness of this in twirling it.
From under the teak table Umballa drew forth two heavy bags of silver coin.
African teak, let me note, is not teak properly so called, but the timber of the Oldfieldia Africana.
One of the pleasures of being "on the road to Mandalay" was to see the-- "Elephints a-pilin' teak In the sludgy, squdgy creek"
In Siam the elephants are much used in managing the immense rafts of teak trees that are floated down the rivers for export.