Teak vs Mahogany - What's the difference?
teak | mahogany |
(uncountable) An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by spp.).
(countable) A tree of the species in the genus Tectona
(uncountable) A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.
Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.
(countable) Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia , having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
(uncountable) The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
A table made from mahogany wood.
* 1842 , Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
As nouns the difference between teak and mahogany
is that teak is while mahogany is (countable) any of various tropical american evergreen trees, of the genus swietenia , having a valuable hard red-brown wood.As an adjective mahogany is
made of mahogany.teak
English
(wikipedia teak)Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* tough as teakAdjective
(-)See also
* afrormosia * iroko *Anagrams
* * ----mahogany
English
(wikipedia mahogany)Noun
citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}
- Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany ?