shorea

IPA: ʃˈɔriʌ

Root Word: Shorea

a genus of about 196 species of mainly rainforest trees in the family Dipterocarpaceae.

Examples of "shorea" in Sentences

Commonly used wood includes teak, shorea, mahogany and cedar.
It is produced by some species of the dipterocarpus or shorea -- which it is impossible to determine. ...
This handcream contains organic evening primrose oil, olive oil, palm oil, jojoba seed oil and shorea butter.
The _sal_ tree (_shorea robusta_), one of the sacred trees of the Buddhists, was said during the Sung dynasty to be identical with the cassia tree in the moon.
The main commercial tree species on the IUCN red list are from three genera - shorea (known locally as meranti), dipterocarps (keruing) and dryobalanops (kapur).