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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food;
[syn: kalumpang, Java olives, Sterculia foetida]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Poon \Poon\, n. [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 f[oe]tida; --
   called also peon.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Sterculia foetida
    n 1: large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling
         orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich
         seeds sometimes used as food [syn: kalumpang, Java
         olives, Sterculia foetida]