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Webster 1913 Edition


Poon

Poon

,
Noun.
[Canarese
ponne
.]
A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as
Calophyllum angustifolium
,
Calophyllum inophullum
, and
Sterculia fœtida
; – called also
peon
.