red lauan

Questions about red lauan

What does red lauan mean?

red lauan means "hard heavy red wood of the red lauan tree; often sold as Philippine mahogany". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red lauan?

Close synonyms include red lauan tree, Shorea teysmanniana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is red lauan a common word?

red lauan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.