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amboina

amboina is the alternative form of amboyna.

Meaning of amboyna

Noun

amboyna (countable and uncountable, plural amboynas)

  1. A south-east Asian tree, Pterocarpus indicus.
  2. The reddish, mottled or striped wood of this tree, used in cabinet-making.

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Forms of amboina

pluralamboinas

Questions about amboina

What is amboina the alternative form of?
Amboina is the alternative form of amboyna.

Words near amboina in the dictionary

  1. amboceptoids
  2. amboceptor
  3. amboceptors
  4. ambodexter
  5. ambodexters
  6. amboina
  7. amboinas
  8. Amboise
  9. ambon
  10. ambones
  11. Ambonese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amboina (page history and authors); amboyna (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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