obeche

o·be·che

[oh-bee-chee]
noun
1.
a tropical African tree, Triplochiton scleroxylon.
2.
the hard, white to pale-yellow wood of this tree, used for making furniture.

Origin:
1905–10; < Edo oβεxε

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obeche

noun
1. the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering 
2. large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood 
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Obeche is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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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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