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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 teak /ˈtik/
 柚木

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Teak n.  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.]
 African teak, a tree (Oldfieldia Africana) of Sierra Leone; also, its very heavy and durable wood; -- called also African oak.
 New Zeland teak, a large tree (Vitex littoralis) of New Zeland; also, its hard, durable timber.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

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