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say it: poon
poon is a noun meaning "wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars". It is pronounced /ˈpun/ — poon. It carries 2 recorded senses.
wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars
any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for poon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.