Poon-wood is the timber of the Poon trees of India and Burma (Calophyllum inophyllum and C. angustifolium). It is very commonly used in the East Indies, particularly in shipbuilding, for planks and spars. See TACAMAHAC.
Poon-wood
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 311
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