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More fully poon tree: any of several large Indo-Malayan trees of the genus Calophyllum (family Clusiaceae (Guttiferae)), esp. the Alexandrian laurel…
In Tahiti: the tree Calophyllum Inophyllum (see poon, n.1, tacamahac, n.); also attributive, as tamanu-resin, tamanu-tree.