Crossword clues for lauan
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lauan
n. Any of several types of light wood, resembling mahogany, from various trees from the Philippines and Malaysia.
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Lauan
Lauan may refer to:
- Decorative plywood made from lauan trees and others in the dipterocarpaceae family
- Trees in genus Shorea, sometimes known as Philippine mahogany
Usage examples of "lauan".
As Calinan dropped behind, the country turned to tropical forest, with tall lauan and tanguile trees, the source of so-called Philippine mahogany.
One chicken scratched in the moonlight where it streamed through sixty-foot high lauan, or Philippine mahogany trees.
In a short time they entered a more normal forest of tall, white lauans over a hundred feet high, with strange roots like flying buttresses.
As Calinan dropped behind, the country turned to tropical forest, with tall lauan and tanguile trees, the source of so-called Philippine mahogany.