teak Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding
    teakwood.
  2. noun tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood
    Tectona grandis.

WordNet

Teak noun
Etymology
Malayalm tekku.
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913