PADOUK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does padouk mean? 

• PADOUK (noun)
  The noun PADOUK has 1 sense:

1. tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain

  Familiarity information: PADOUK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PADOUK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

amboyna; padauk; padouk; Pterocarpus indicus

Hypernyms ("padouk" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "padouk"):

amboyna; Andaman redwood (mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus)

Holonyms ("padouk" is a member of...):

genus Pterocarpus; Pterocarpus (genus of tropical trees or climbers having usually broadly winged pods)