teak

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A large deciduous tree (Tectona grandis) in the mint family, native to tropical South and Southeast Asia, having hard, heavy, durable yellowish-brown wood.
• noun The wood of this tree, used especially for furniture and in shipbuilding.
• noun A grayish yellowish brown or grayish to moderate brown.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An East Indian timber-tree, Tectona grandis, or its wood.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).
• noun countable A tree of the species in the genus Tectona
• noun uncountable A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.
• adjective Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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