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  • Last Friday we were at the Phoenix home show and saw a 12 "x12" outdoor wooden interlocking floor tile advertised (they are called "interlocking keruing floor tiles").

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » New Floor for the Atrium 2005

  • The tiles have strips of finished wood that looks like teak (but are keruing, whatver that is) attached to a flexible rubber mat.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » New Floor for the Atrium 2005

  • When king Richard heard that word, he tooke the keruing knife in his hand, and strake the esquier on the head, saieng The diuell take Henrie of Lancaster and thée togither.

    Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed

  • Land use change since the 1960s have resulted in species like the keruing padi and balau putih becoming extremely rare, existing only in sporadic, small pockets of forests in the peninsula, said Dr Lilian Chua of the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM).

    nst online 2010

  • The main commercial tree species on the IUCN red list are from three genera - shorea (known locally as meranti), dipterocarps (keruing) and dryobalanops (kapur).

    Red listed of tree species may hurt Sarawak timber trade 2010

  • Meranti, keruing and kapur trees were found abundantly in Sarawak, and the state had been producing large volumes of logs, timber and timber products from these genera, Wong said in a speech read by the association's treasurer Philip Choo, at the opening of a seminar on Dipterocarps yesterday.

    Red listed of tree species may hurt Sarawak timber trade 2010

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