poi

1. 1.

   Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment

   Broaderdish

Other forms of poi

plural

pois·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about poi

What does poi mean?

poi means "Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment".

How many syllables are in poi?

poi has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.