teak
/tiːk/noun
1
- mass noun hard durable timber used in shipbuilding and for making furniture柚木木材。
2
- the large deciduous tree native to India and SE Asia which yields this timber柚木。
2.1
- Tectona grandis, family Verbenaceae.拉丁名Tectona grandis,马鞭草科。
词源
late 17th cent.: from Portuguese teca, from Tamil and Malayalam tēkku.