TEAK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teak mean? 

• TEAK (noun)
  The noun TEAK has 2 senses:

1. hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding

2. tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood

  Familiarity information: TEAK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEAK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

teak; teakwood

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

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("teak" is a substance of...):

teak; Tectona grandis (tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

teak; Tectona grandis

Hypernyms ("teak" 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 "teak"):

teak; teakwood (hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding)

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

genus Tectona; Tectona (small genus of southeastern Asian tropics: teak)