▸nouna tropical West African hardwood tree which is valued for its timber.Also called okoume.
Aucoumea klaineana, family Burseraceae.
– ORIGIN early 18th century (in the historical sense ‘a person from the country of Gabon’): from Gaboon (now Gabon); the current sense dates from the 1920s.
EnglishOxford New American Dictionary
