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POI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does poi mean?
• POI (noun)
The noun POI has 1 sense:
1. Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment
Familiarity information: POI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("poi" is a kind of...):
dish (a particular item of prepared food)
Meronyms (substance of "poi"):
cocoyam; dasheen; edda; taro; taro root (tropical starchy tuberous root)
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