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padouk

padouk is the alternative form of padauk.

Meaning of padauk

Noun

padauk (usually uncountable, plural padauks)

  1. (usually) Any of the trees of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus.
  2. (usually) The valuable timber of these trees.
    • In the dusty workroom her artificially red ponytail glowed like padauk, one of the exotic veneers she uses in her work.2008 May 27, Carol Kino, “An Artist Breathes New Life Into Renaissance Ways With Wood”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    mukwa, narra

Questions about padouk

What is padouk the alternative form of?
Padouk is the alternative form of padauk.

Words near padouk in the dictionary

  1. padnag
  2. padnags
  3. Padoga
  4. Padouca
  5. Padoucas
  6. padouk
  7. Padovan sequence
  8. Padovano
  9. Padovanos
  10. padow
  11. padows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: padouk (page history and authors); padauk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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