tectona grandis

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsteak

   Broadertree

   Part ofTectona

Questions about tectona grandis

What does tectona grandis mean?

tectona grandis means "tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood".

What is another word for tectona grandis?

Close synonyms include teak. 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 tectona grandis a common word?

tectona grandis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.