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Teak
Teak
(tēk)
, Noun.
[Malayalam
tekku
.] (Bot.)
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
teek
.] African teak
, a tree (
– Oldfieldia Africana
) of Sierra Leone; also, its very heavy and durable wood; – called also African oak
. New Zeland teak
, a large tree (
Vitex littoralis
) of New Zeland; also, its hard, durable timber.