/booh gaonn veel"/ for 1; /booh"geuhn vil', boh"-/ , Fr. /booh gaonn veel"/ for 2 , n.
1. Louis Antoine de /lwee ahonn twannn" deuh/ , 1729-1811, French navigator.
2. the largest of the Solomon Islands, in the W Pacific Ocean: part of Papua New Guinea. 78,000; 4080 sq. mi. (10,567 sq. km).