Definition of "keyaki" []

• An Asian tree, Zelkova serrata. (noun)

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• "Takeji Nakagawa is a Japanese craftsman who makes his futuristic toys out of our types of wood: keyaki (a Japanese tree of the genus Zelkova), teak, walnut and white ash."
• "The artisan crafts things like animals and futuristic robots out of four types of wood: keyaki a Japanese tree of the genus Zelkova, teak, walnut and white ash."
• "They were mounted upon Japanese brocade of blue and dull gold, framed in keyaki wood, and out of their brown, time-stained shadows the great Rakan scowled or grinned or placidly gazed, grotesquely graceful masterpieces of a perished art."