wood from any of several Malaysian trees of the dipterocarpaceous genus Shorea
Word origin
C18: from Malay
Examples of 'meranti' in a sentence
meranti
Both beam and plywood were made of meranti (shorea).
Lenggani Farida, Suryoatmono Bambang 2019, 'Behavior of wood beam connection using staples subjected to in-plane moment', MATEC Web of Conferenceshttps://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201925805008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)