Definition of Genus tectona

1. Noun. Small genus of southeastern Asian tropics: teak.

Exact synonyms: Tectona
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Verbenaceae, Verbena Family, Verbenaceae, Vervain Family
Member holonyms: Teak, Tectona Grandis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tectona

genus Taraktagenos
genus Taraktogenos
genus Taraxacum
genus Taricha
genus Tarpon
genus Tarrietia
genus Tarsius
genus Taurotragus
genus Tautoga
genus Tautogolabrus
genus Taxidea
genus Taxodium
genus Taxus
genus Tectaria
genus Tectona
genus Telanthera
genus Tellima
genus Telopea
genus Templetonia
genus Tenrec
genus Tephrosia
genus Terebella
genus Teredo
genus Termes
genus Terrapene
genus Terrietia
genus Testudo
genus Tethus
genus Tetraclinis

Literary usage of Genus tectona

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Indian Forester (1892)
"The genus Tectona is not found in Africa. Five species of the genus Pinus are known in the East Indies. P. excelsa, and Gerardiana belong to the North West ..."

2. The Saturday Magazine (1838)
"... is the produce of a tree of the genus Tectona. Valuable as teak is found to be in ship-building, it has not yet been used in domestic building to any ..."

3. Report on Teak Forests of the Tenasserim Provinces: With Other Papers on the by Hugh Falconer (1852)
"The Teak tree of commerce belongs to a genus, Tectona, which comprises two species, viz., Tectona Grandis and Tectona Hamiltonii. ..."

4. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1916)
"Genus TECTONA. T. grandis L. f. (PI. X, fig. 76.) TEAK. Teak is not native to the Philippines, but was sparingly introduced so long ago that trees up to 80 ..."

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