lauan

[ loo-ahn, loo-ahn, lou- ]

noun

1. Philippine mahogany.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lauan¹

Said to be < Tagalog

Example Sentences

Some thin-sets work fine on exterior grade plywood but not with lauan plywood, particleboard or hardwood.

From Washington Post

Customers will be offered "rain forest tours" through the store, spotlighting products made with trees from pristine, old-growth forests around the world: dowels and tool handles of ramin wood from Southeast Asia, doors of Amazon mahogany, cedar shingles and Douglas fir lumber from the temperate rain forests of North America, lauan plywood from the Philippines and Indonesia.

From Time Magazine Archive

The plant includes a $100,000 shipyard structure which could be used for an aircraft layout room and office building; the materials are a three-year supply of lauan teakwood and pine lumber for plywood; the promises are that the War Department will supply most of the needed machinery.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Calinan dropped behind, the country turned to tropical forest, with tall lauan and tanguile trees, the source of so-called Philippine mahogany.

From Project Gutenberg

Salingolop was a man of great and prodigious force, and as tall as the Lauan, which is the tallest tree in these forests.

From Project Gutenberg