Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several African or Asian trees of the genus Pterocarpus of the pea family, having hard red or red-purple wood.
- noun The wood of any of these trees, used chiefly for furniture and cabinetwork.
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- noun The
valuable timber of Pterocarpus, apantropical genus oftrees .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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The chair prototype pictured above is made of padauk and aluminum connector plates.
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The furniture was made of beautiful shiny padauk wood, which is a deep red, sometimes almost shading into black.
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When my mother entered the sitting room with my father, her mother-in-law was seated at the far end on a formal, carved square padauk chair.
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Leading up to her on both sides of the room, enhancing the formality, were two symmetrical rows of square, exquisitely carved padauk chairs.
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The furniture was made of beautiful shiny padauk wood, which is a deep red, sometimes almost shading into black.
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When my mother entered the sitting room with my father, her mother-in-law was seated at the far end on a formal, carved square padauk chair.
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The furniture was made of beautiful shiny padauk wood, which is a deep red, sometimes almost shading into black.
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Leading up to her on both sides of the room, enhancing the formality, were two symmetrical rows of square, exquisitely carved padauk chairs.
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Leading up to her on both sides of the room, enhancing the formality, were two symmetrical rows of square, exquisitely carved padauk chairs.
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When my mother entered the sitting room with my father, her mother-in-law was seated at the far end on a formal, carved square padauk chair.
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