in botany; a genus of plants belonging to the class of pentandra, and order of monogynia. The stigma is dentate; the fruit a dry spongy plum within an inflated calyx; and the nucleus is trilocular. There is only one species, the grandis, Indian oak, or teak wood, which is a native of India.

TE DEUM, the name of a celebrated hymn, used in the Christian church, and so called because it begins with these words, Te Deum laudamus, We praise thee, O God. It is sung in the Roman church with great pomp and solemnity upon the gaining of a victory, or other happy event; and is believed to be the composition of St Ambrose bishop of Milan.