Teak is a hard durable timber from a tropical tree. A teak bench, solid teak, teak decking.
Its own oil makes it resist water, rot and insects with no treatment at all, which is why it was the timber for ships' decks and is still used for garden furniture. Untreated it weathers to a silver grey. Old-growth teak is now largely protected.
1nounteakA hard durable timber from a tropical tree.
“The deck of the old sailing ship was made of teak.”
teak is a timber.
Portuguese teca comes from the Malayalam and Tamil name for the tree.
Tamil
தேக்கு
Malayalam
തേക്ക്
Portuguese
teca
English, today
teak
Portuguese teca, from Malayalam തേക്ക് / Tamil தேக்கு.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA