teak
pronunciation
How to pronounce teak in British English:
UK [ti:k]
How to pronounce teak in American English:
US [tik]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- teak (n.)
- type of large East Indian tree yielding dark, heavy wood, 1690s, from Portuguese teca, from Malayam tekka, corresponding to Tamil tekku, Telugu teku, Kanarese tegu "the teak tree." The Hindi name is sagwan, sagun.
Example
- 1. Ceramic tiles framed in durable teak shimmer in the first-class spa .
- 2. 01 U bein teak bridge , outside mandalay . Sunsets here are incredible .
- 3. Along the ayeyarwady river burmese workers push huge teak logs onto trucks in mandalay , myanmar .
- 4. Some of the river 's most lucrative shipments teak and other hardwoods head for india and thailand .
- 5. Buddhist novice monks sit near u bein bridge , the longest teak bridge in the world , in mandalay .