gaboon

[guh-boon, ga-, gah-]

noun

Also called gaboon mahogany. the soft, reddish-brown wood of an African tree, Aucoumea klaineana, used for making furniture.

the tree itself.

Nearby words

Origin of gaboon

First recorded in 1910–15; variant of Gabon

Also called okoume.

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Examples from the Web for gaboon

Here at Gaboon, he preaches to the natives in their own language, which he represents as being very soft, and easy of acquirement.
Journal of an African Cruiser|Horatio Bridge
Other natives, in the neighborhood of Gaboon, worship the shark, and throw slaves to him to be devoured.
Journal of an African Cruiser|Horatio Bridge
The men must agree to take us up into the Fan country, as far as the rapids on the Gaboon.
By Sheer Pluck|G. A. Henty
The Mpongwes inhabit the right bank of the Gaboon, spreading over an extent of seventy to eighty miles.
The Desert World|Arthur Mangin

He spent his youth in the French settlement at the Gaboon, on the west coast of Africa, where his father was a merchant.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various

British Dictionary definitions for gaboon

gaboon

noun

the dark mahogany-like wood from a western and central African burseraceous tree, Aucoumea klaineana, used in plywood, for furniture, and as a veneer

Word Origin for gaboon

C20: altered from Gabon

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