Definition of "padauk"

padauk

noun
usually uncountable, plural padauks
1. Any of the trees of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus.
2. The valuable timber of these trees.
  Quotations
  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