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PADAUK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does padauk mean? 

PADAUK (noun)
  The noun PADAUK has 1 sense:

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

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PADAUK (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 ("padauk" 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 "padauk"):

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

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

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


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