Gaboonn.

Brit.

/ɡəˈbuːn/, U.S.

/ɡəˈbun/

Forms: 1700s– Gabon, 1800s– Gaboon, 1900s Gabun. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From proper names. Etymons: proper name Gaboon, Gabon.

Etymology: < Gaboon, former variant of Gabon (French Gabon), the name of a country in West Africa.The place name is attested in English from the 17th cent. (as Gabam , Gabom , and Gabon ), originally denoting the Komo estuary < the Portuguese place name Gabão , †Gabam , †Gabom , denoting the same estuary (1505; also from c1500 on maps). Historical note. Europeans traded from the Komo estuary from the late 15th cent.; from the mid 19th cent., the French gained political influence over the wider region, and incorporated it into French Equatorial Africa in 1910. Gabon has been an independent nation since 1960. Specific uses. With gaboon wood n. at Compounds 2 compare the following isolated earlier example of gabons wood , of uncertain sense ( < the genitive of the name of Gabon + wood n.¹):1659 Occurr. Forraigne Parts No. 3. 22 Here is arived the Ship, called the Dutches, coming from New Guinia, laden with these Commodities following;..3600 pound Gabons wood.In use with reference to snakes (see gaboon adder n., gaboon viper n. at Compounds 2) after French échidnée du Gabon and scientific Latin Echidna gabonica (both A. M. C. Duméril & G. Bibron Erpétologie générale (1854) VII. 1428).

I. A Gabonese person.

1. A native or inhabitant of Gabon; a Gabonese person. Usually in plural. Now rare (historical after 19th cent.).

ΚΠ

a1712 J. Barbot Descr. N. & S.-Guinea iv. x in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) V. 394/2 As to the religion of the Gabons, they are all most gross and very superstitious pagans.

1816 H. Koster Trav. Brazil xix. 420 It is with difficulty that the Gaboons can be taught to perform any labour above that of the simplest description.

1863 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 410/2 The women..have the reputation of being the prettiest on this coast, surpassing even the Mpongwe or Gabons.

1930 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 15 315 The Gaboons..were not so easily adapted to compulsory labor upon their arrival in Brazil.

1999 T. C. Landsmark Haunting Echoes (Ph.D. diss., Boston Univ.) III. 1029 Small numbers of Senegalese..along with Congoes, Gaboons, and finally Eboes..were also imported into the Low Country rice plantations.

II. Elliptical uses.

2. = Gaboon mahogany n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > gaboon

Gaboon1920

okoume1922

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of African trees > West African

pearwood1902

Gaboon1920

guarea1936

makoré1936

idigbo1942

limba1955

ovangkol1972

agboin1974

1920 A. L. Howard Man. Timbers of World 140 Gaboon has been tried for the purpose of making aeroplane propellers.

1947 R. Greenhalgh Mod. Building Constr. I. 378/1 European [plywood] is similar..but large quantities of gaboon are used.

2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees ix. 220 Outstanding is gaboon of Africa, Aucoumea klaineana, used for everything from cigar boxes to sports gear and high-class furniture.

†3. = Gaboon ebony n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of African trees

citron1627

yellowwood1790

citron wood1880

Gaboon1921

dahoma1955

khaya1956

1921 Sci. Amer. 4 June 455/2 The jet black kinds [of ebony] are the Gaboon, which is like hard charcoal, and the Madagascar... The logs of Gaboon are small.

4. = gaboon viper n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > genus Bitis > bitis gabonica (gaboon viper)

gaboon viper1894

gaboon adder1895

Gaboon1978

1978 B. Stonehouse Closer Look at Reptiles 21 Among the most poisonous of all vipers, with large poison fangs, gaboons live in African forests and grasslands.

1991 M. W. Walker Zero at Bone 121 They [sc. bushmasters] don't have the subtle coloring of the Gaboons, but the raised beaded texture of the scales is nice.

Compounds

C1.

a. attributive uses of the name of the estuary and country.

ΚΠ

1843 Missionary Herald (Boston) Oct. 404/1 The Kite's boats went up, piloted by a Gaboon man from this side, and brought her down.

1855 Harvard Mag. Jan. 99 To live like a Gaboon savage.

1905 E. C. Parsons Christus Liberator iii. 157 Gaboon women visit the sick, and talk the Bible to the heathen.

2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. II. 629/1 Sun-tailed guenon , Cercopithecus solatus.Gabon monkey with an orange tail, first described in 1988 by Mike Harrison. Confirmed as a separate species in 1993.

b. attributive and instrumental uses of sense 2.

ΚΠ

1904 Timber Trades Jrnl. 2 Apr. 740/2 A fair amount of the African wood [sc. mahogany]..was sold. There were submitted 346 lots of Lagos..69 logs of Sapeli, Benin, padouk, birch and Gaboon logs.

1958 Archit. Rev. 124 191/2 The floors are of mansonia wood blocks, the staircase and fittings of sapele and the ceilings gaboon plywood.

1960 Guardian 29 Sept. 9/1 Another very pleasant thing about the classrooms is the row of gaboon-faced sliding doors.

2008 N. Compton Iain Oughtred iv. 78 The solution was to glue some elm veneers to a gaboon core.

C2.

gaboon adder n. = gaboon viper n.

ΚΠ

1895 Chicago Med. Times 26 287/1 The following, so far as known, is a list of the ophidian tribe or family, both of the orient and our own continent:..the Gabon viper and adder, of North Africa.

1903 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 3 Jan. 22576/2 The snake is now kept in the museums under the name of Bitis gabonica (Gabun or Gaboon adder).

2012 MailOnline (Nexis) 13 Dec. The collection includes a chameleon sticking its tongue out, a lion licking its paw and an incredibly well-camouflaged Gaboon Adder hidden among leaves.

Gaboon ebony n. the hard black heartwood of any of several tropical African trees of the genus Diospyros (family Ebenaceae), esp. D. crassiflora; (occasionally also) a tree producing this wood.See also gaboon wood n. (b).

ΚΠ

1902 Dry Goods Reporter 8 Nov. 19/2 The best Gaboon ebony, which takes an absolutely black finish, is the material used for some of the novel articles selling to the holiday trade.

1910 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 843/2 The heart-wood is very black and hard and is known as black ebony,..and Gabun, Lagos, Calabar or Niger ebony.

1943 Econ. Geogr. 19 83/2 True ebony is an Asiatic tree but Gabon ebony (D. dendo) and West African ebony (D. crassiflora and D. piscatoria) are woods having properties and uses similar to the Asiatic ebony.

2015 G. E. Teague Witch's Guide Wands 49 Gabon ebony is a threatened species and therefore should be acquired and used carefully.

Gaboon mahogany n. the soft, light, pliable wood of the tropical African tree Aucoumea klaineana (family Burseraceae), used especially for plywood; (occasionally also) the tree itself; = okoume n.See also gaboon wood n. (b).

ΚΠ

1897 Timber & Wood Working Machinery 21 Aug. 527/2 The African wood, which was an excellent selection, Mr. Dobell quickly sold out (with the exception of the Gaboon mahogany) at full prices.

1900 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) Nos. 157–168. 3 M. Cornu has at the present time under cultivation in the gardens plants of the Gabon mahogany of commerce, which so far he has been enabled to identify as a species of Bursera.

1963 Geography 48 155 The characteristic species is Aucomea Klaineana, more commonly known locally and in trade as okoumé and also erroneously referred to as Gabon mahogany.

gaboon viper n. a large, highly venomous snake with an intricate pattern of mainly brown, black, and cream coloration, Bitis gabonica, native to tropical Africa.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > genus Bitis > bitis gabonica (gaboon viper)

gaboon viper1894

gaboon adder1895

Gaboon1978

1894 McClure's Mag. Oct. 461 (caption) The Gaboon Viper.

1928 Daily Tel. 29 May 6 Specimens of the green mamba and gaboon viper from West Africa.

2007 A. J. Stevens Last Snake Man v. 57 The gaboon viper in question was a docile reptile.

gaboon wood n. †(a) camwood (or barwood), a red dye wood commonly exported from Gabon (obsolete rare); (b) Gaboon mahogany (see sense 2) or (rarely) Gaboon ebony (see sense 3).

ΚΠ

?1855 Koopmans-Goudmijn: Leerboek der Warenkennis 237 Kamhout, ook wel Afrikaansch roodhout geheeten, engl. bar wood, Gabon of Gaboon wood.

1898 Timber & Wood Working Machinery 17 Sept. 568/3 The African wood did fairly well, the only parcel being offered and withdrawn being the 50 logs of round Gaboon wood, which buyers seem to have a prejudice against.

1904 Amer. Architect & Building News 19 Mar. 92/2 Gaboon wood is very little better than birch in color and texture, and, as a furniture-wood, it should be avoided.

1969 World Wood July 41/1 Okoumé (Gaboon wood) is by far the main species exploited.

2003 Jrnl. Soc. Architect. Historians 62 264/1 The desk designed for Marie Dormoy in mahogany, gaboon wood, and ivory (ca. 1932) placed Perret among the most sophisticated..French designers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gaboon
释义	Gaboonn. Brit. /ɡəˈbuːn/, U.S. /ɡəˈbun/ Forms: 1700s– Gabon, 1800s– Gaboon, 1900s Gabun. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: From proper names. Etymons: proper name Gaboon, Gabon. Etymology: < Gaboon, former variant of Gabon (French Gabon), the name of a country in West Africa.The place name is attested in English from the 17th cent. (as Gabam , Gabom , and Gabon ), originally denoting the Komo estuary < the Portuguese place name Gabão , †Gabam , †Gabom , denoting the same estuary (1505; also from c1500 on maps). Historical note. Europeans traded from the Komo estuary from the late 15th cent.; from the mid 19th cent., the French gained political influence over the wider region, and incorporated it into French Equatorial Africa in 1910. Gabon has been an independent nation since 1960. Specific uses. With gaboon wood n. at Compounds 2 compare the following isolated earlier example of gabons wood , of uncertain sense ( < the genitive of the name of Gabon + wood n.¹):1659 Occurr. Forraigne Parts No. 3. 22 Here is arived the Ship, called the Dutches, coming from New Guinia, laden with these Commodities following;..3600 pound Gabons wood.In use with reference to snakes (see gaboon adder n., gaboon viper n. at Compounds 2) after French échidnée du Gabon and scientific Latin Echidna gabonica (both A. M. C. Duméril & G. Bibron Erpétologie générale (1854) VII. 1428). I. A Gabonese person. 1. A native or inhabitant of Gabon; a Gabonese person. Usually in plural. Now rare (historical after 19th cent.). ΚΠ a1712 J. Barbot Descr. N. & S.-Guinea iv. x in Churchill's Coll. Voy. (1732) V. 394/2 As to the religion of the Gabons, they are all most gross and very superstitious pagans. 1816 H. Koster Trav. Brazil xix. 420 It is with difficulty that the Gaboons can be taught to perform any labour above that of the simplest description. 1863 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 410/2 The women..have the reputation of being the prettiest on this coast, surpassing even the Mpongwe or Gabons. 1930 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 15 315 The Gaboons..were not so easily adapted to compulsory labor upon their arrival in Brazil. 1999 T. C. Landsmark Haunting Echoes (Ph.D. diss., Boston Univ.) III. 1029 Small numbers of Senegalese..along with Congoes, Gaboons, and finally Eboes..were also imported into the Low Country rice plantations. II. Elliptical uses. 2. = Gaboon mahogany n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > gaboon Gaboon1920 okoume1922 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of African trees > West African pearwood1902 Gaboon1920 guarea1936 makoré1936 idigbo1942 limba1955 ovangkol1972 agboin1974 1920 A. L. Howard Man. Timbers of World 140 Gaboon has been tried for the purpose of making aeroplane propellers. 1947 R. Greenhalgh Mod. Building Constr. I. 378/1 European [plywood] is similar..but large quantities of gaboon are used. 2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees ix. 220 Outstanding is gaboon of Africa, Aucoumea klaineana, used for everything from cigar boxes to sports gear and high-class furniture. †3. = Gaboon ebony n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of African trees citron1627 yellowwood1790 citron wood1880 Gaboon1921 dahoma1955 khaya1956 1921 Sci. Amer. 4 June 455/2 The jet black kinds [of ebony] are the Gaboon, which is like hard charcoal, and the Madagascar... The logs of Gaboon are small. 4. = gaboon viper n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > genus Bitis > bitis gabonica (gaboon viper) gaboon viper1894 gaboon adder1895 Gaboon1978 1978 B. Stonehouse Closer Look at Reptiles 21 Among the most poisonous of all vipers, with large poison fangs, gaboons live in African forests and grasslands. 1991 M. W. Walker Zero at Bone 121 They [sc. bushmasters] don't have the subtle coloring of the Gaboons, but the raised beaded texture of the scales is nice. Compounds C1. a. attributive uses of the name of the estuary and country. ΚΠ 1843 Missionary Herald (Boston) Oct. 404/1 The Kite's boats went up, piloted by a Gaboon man from this side, and brought her down. 1855 Harvard Mag. Jan. 99 To live like a Gaboon savage. 1905 E. C. Parsons Christus Liberator iii. 157 Gaboon women visit the sick, and talk the Bible to the heathen. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. II. 629/1 Sun-tailed guenon , Cercopithecus solatus.Gabon monkey with an orange tail, first described in 1988 by Mike Harrison. Confirmed as a separate species in 1993. b. attributive and instrumental uses of sense 2. ΚΠ 1904 Timber Trades Jrnl. 2 Apr. 740/2 A fair amount of the African wood [sc. mahogany]..was sold. There were submitted 346 lots of Lagos..69 logs of Sapeli, Benin, padouk, birch and Gaboon logs. 1958 Archit. Rev. 124 191/2 The floors are of mansonia wood blocks, the staircase and fittings of sapele and the ceilings gaboon plywood. 1960 Guardian 29 Sept. 9/1 Another very pleasant thing about the classrooms is the row of gaboon-faced sliding doors. 2008 N. Compton Iain Oughtred iv. 78 The solution was to glue some elm veneers to a gaboon core. C2. gaboon adder n. = gaboon viper n. ΚΠ 1895 Chicago Med. Times 26 287/1 The following, so far as known, is a list of the ophidian tribe or family, both of the orient and our own continent:..the Gabon viper and adder, of North Africa. 1903 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 3 Jan. 22576/2 The snake is now kept in the museums under the name of Bitis gabonica (Gabun or Gaboon adder). 2012 MailOnline (Nexis) 13 Dec. The collection includes a chameleon sticking its tongue out, a lion licking its paw and an incredibly well-camouflaged Gaboon Adder hidden among leaves. Gaboon ebony n. the hard black heartwood of any of several tropical African trees of the genus Diospyros (family Ebenaceae), esp. D. crassiflora; (occasionally also) a tree producing this wood.See also gaboon wood n. (b). ΚΠ 1902 Dry Goods Reporter 8 Nov. 19/2 The best Gaboon ebony, which takes an absolutely black finish, is the material used for some of the novel articles selling to the holiday trade. 1910 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 843/2 The heart-wood is very black and hard and is known as black ebony,..and Gabun, Lagos, Calabar or Niger ebony. 1943 Econ. Geogr. 19 83/2 True ebony is an Asiatic tree but Gabon ebony (D. dendo) and West African ebony (D. crassiflora and D. piscatoria) are woods having properties and uses similar to the Asiatic ebony. 2015 G. E. Teague Witch's Guide Wands 49 Gabon ebony is a threatened species and therefore should be acquired and used carefully. Gaboon mahogany n. the soft, light, pliable wood of the tropical African tree Aucoumea klaineana (family Burseraceae), used especially for plywood; (occasionally also) the tree itself; = okoume n.See also gaboon wood n. (b). ΚΠ 1897 Timber & Wood Working Machinery 21 Aug. 527/2 The African wood, which was an excellent selection, Mr. Dobell quickly sold out (with the exception of the Gaboon mahogany) at full prices. 1900 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) Nos. 157–168. 3 M. Cornu has at the present time under cultivation in the gardens plants of the Gabon mahogany of commerce, which so far he has been enabled to identify as a species of Bursera. 1963 Geography 48 155 The characteristic species is Aucomea Klaineana, more commonly known locally and in trade as okoumé and also erroneously referred to as Gabon mahogany. gaboon viper n. a large, highly venomous snake with an intricate pattern of mainly brown, black, and cream coloration, Bitis gabonica, native to tropical Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > genus Bitis > bitis gabonica (gaboon viper) gaboon viper1894 gaboon adder1895 Gaboon1978 1894 McClure's Mag. Oct. 461 (caption) The Gaboon Viper. 1928 Daily Tel. 29 May 6 Specimens of the green mamba and gaboon viper from West Africa. 2007 A. J. Stevens Last Snake Man v. 57 The gaboon viper in question was a docile reptile. gaboon wood n. †(a) camwood (or barwood), a red dye wood commonly exported from Gabon (obsolete rare); (b) Gaboon mahogany (see sense 2) or (rarely) Gaboon ebony (see sense 3). ΚΠ ?1855 Koopmans-Goudmijn: Leerboek der Warenkennis 237 Kamhout, ook wel Afrikaansch roodhout geheeten, engl. bar wood, Gabon of Gaboon wood. 1898 Timber & Wood Working Machinery 17 Sept. 568/3 The African wood did fairly well, the only parcel being offered and withdrawn being the 50 logs of round Gaboon wood, which buyers seem to have a prejudice against. 1904 Amer. Architect & Building News 19 Mar. 92/2 Gaboon wood is very little better than birch in color and texture, and, as a furniture-wood, it should be avoided. 1969 World Wood July 41/1 Okoumé (Gaboon wood) is by far the main species exploited. 2003 Jrnl. Soc. Architect. Historians 62 264/1 The desk designed for Marie Dormoy in mahogany, gaboon wood, and ivory (ca. 1932) placed Perret among the most sophisticated..French designers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1712
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