lauan

I was at a rain-forest benefit back in 1990 at the Twentieth Century Fox studios, and right there on the soundstage was lauan plywood, which must have been ripped out of the rain forest.

Talking With Ed 2007

4In accordance with Casio's own standard with reference to the US MIL-STD-810F Method 516. 5-Shock, the camera passed a test in which it was dropped from a height of 2.13 meters (7 feet) onto lauan plywood at 26 different angles.

ePHOTOzine News Feed 2009

[40] Probably the lauan (also called lauaan and sándana; _Dipterocarpus thurifera_ -- Linn.), a reddish white or ashy wood with brown spots, used chiefly in the construction of canoes, and producing logs 75 feet long by 24 inches square (_U. S.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Edward Gaylord Bourne 1884

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Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550