gaboon

[guh-boon, ga-, gah-]

ga·boon

[guh-boon, ga-, gah-]
noun
1.
Also called gaboon mahogany. the soft, reddish-brown wood of an African tree, Aucoumea klaineana, used for making furniture.
2.
the tree itself.
Also called okoume.


Origin:
1910–15; variant of Gabon
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Gaboon is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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gaboon (ɡəˈbuːn)
 
n
the dark mahogany-like wood from a western and central African burseraceous tree, Aucoumea klaineana, used in plywood, for furniture, and as a veneer
 
[C20: altered from Gabon]

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