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ʻaina₃.  vs. rejected, as refuse, especially of sugar cane.

ipu ʻainaslop basin

kō ʻainasugar-cane refuse or bagasse after juice is extracted

ʻaina kea.  n. a good-looking variety of sugar cane, of medium height, striped red and green or yellow, pith white and brown, leaves and leaf sheaths with white markings; used in medicine. also pū kea.

ainakea [ai-na-ke-a].  s. Aina, eating, and kea, species of cane. See kokea. The eating of sugar-cane till dry and white.

ʻaina kea melemele [ʻaina kea mele·mele].  n. a variety of sugar cane, the yellow mutant of ʻaina kea.

ʻaki₁.  nvt.
  • to take a nip and let go, snap; to nibble, as fish;
  • to bite off the bark of sugar cane;
  • to heal, as a wound;
  • to scar over;
  • sharp recurring pain, as in head or stomach.
  • fig., to attack, taunt, malign, snap at;
  • slander (Hal. 50.20) ;
  • backbiter (Roma 1.30) .
  [(AN) PPN *kati, bite, nip]

ʻaki ka nukuto press the lips tightly together

hōʻakicaus/sim

ʻōpū ʻakisevere stomach-ache

Pēlā e lilo ai ia i mea i hōʻino ʻia ai, i mea e ʻaki ai.So it shall be a reproach and a taunt. (Ezek. 5.15)

ʻakilolo₁ [ʻaki·lolo].  n. a wrasse fish of the hīnālea type (Gomphosus varius). Also hīnālea ʻakilolo. This fish was used by priests as the pani or closing medicine for head diseases. The taro or sugar cane of the same name might substitute. lit., brain biting.

akilolo [a-ki-lo-lo].  s. The name of a fish; a species of small fish.

ʻakilolo₂ [ʻaki·lolo].  n. a variety of sugar cane, striped with green and deep purplish-red when young, with yellow and red when older; named for the fish.

ʻakilolo ʻulaʻula [ʻaki·lolo ʻulaʻula].  n. a variety of sugar cane, with purplish leaves. see nānahu.

ʻakoki.  n. a variety of sugar cane, deep-red and green when young, changing to purple and brown-yellow; pith dark-brown; larger and stronger than ʻakilolo, especially in wet districts.

ʻalaʻihi₃.  a variety of sugar cane named for the fish, either a deep-red mutant of ʻāwela or related to it; internodes barrel-shaped, leaves purple. (HP 221, 224)

ʻāwela₃ [ʻā·wela].  n. a flowerless variety of sugar cane, named for the fish; it is green and yellow striped, becoming flushed with rose in the sun; the internodes are barrel-shaped and the leaves variegated. also puaʻole. (HP 221, 224)

ʻāwela melemele [ʻā·wela mele·mele].  n. a variety of sugar cane, a bronze-yellow mutant of ʻāwela. also uleʻohiʻu, uluhui. (HP 221)

ʻāweoweo₂ [ʻā·weo·weo].  n. a variety of sugar cane named for the fish.
 

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ʻeleao₂ [ʻele·ao].  n. a native fungus (Gnomania iliau), parasitic on leaf sheaths of sugar cane.

ʻeleʻele₆.  same as māikoiko, a variety of sugar cane.
 

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hā₄.  nvs. stalk that supports the leaf and enfolds the stem of certain plants, as taro, sugar cane; layers in a banana stump. cf. ʻohana. [(AN) PPN *faʻa, stalk n]

ha.  s. The lower end of kalo tops or leaves when cut off from the root; the same also of cane tops; the lower part of that which is cut off. The stem of a kalo leaf or of sugar-cane.

halāliʻi₂.  n. a variety of sugar cane, vigorous, large, of the Lahaina type, perhaps named for Halāliʻi, Niʻihau, where a famous sugar cane once grew in the sand dunes. This cane was used in ceremonies for remission of sins (uku hala, wehe hala). Also pakaiea. See saying, kō₁.

hāpai kō [hā·pai kō].  v. to carry sugar cane bundles on the back, as formerly done by plantation workers.

heu.  nvs.
  • down or fine hair, fuzz, fuzzy, downy;
  • loose fibers on certain fruits or leaves, hairlike growths or spines on sugar cane stalks or cactus;
  • quicksilver or mercury on back of a mirror,
  • to begin to grow, as a youth's beard or pubic hair;
  • to sprout, of seedlings.
  PEP *feu.

hoʻoheucaus/sim.; to grow, sprout, germinate; pubescence

Kū ka heu, piʻi ka heu.The fuzz bristles [anger].

kuʻu keiki o ka lā heu ʻolechild of my beardless youth [Kamehameha's term for his first child, Kaōleiokū]

ʻōkalakala heu pāninibristling with fine cactus spines (ON 2415)

heu [he-u].  s. Down or fine hair. A youngster; a young man, from his down or first beard; kuu kane o ka wa heu ole, my husband from the time of youth (without a beard.) Laieik. 204. The quicksilver on the back of a looking-glass; holoi lakou i ka heu o ka aniani, they washed off the quicksilver of the glass. The work first done, the speech first made, the first movement in an affair. v. To begin to grow, as the beard; he kanaka opiopio wale no, akahi no a heu. adj. The first shooting of beards in boys; he keiki heu, a child bearded.

hinahina₇ [hina·hina].  n. a variety of sugar cane, gray-green with a rosy flush, the whole covered with a wax bloom; pith dark brown; looks like lahi₂. (HP 224, 225)

holowaʻa₁, holoaʻa [holo·waʻa, holo·aʻa].  n. trough, especially vessel in which kava was mixed; oblong box, coffin, chest, cradle; furrow, as for planting sugar cane.

holowaʻa waiho anianihandmade mirror fitted into a wooden frame, as of wiliwili wood

Kau i ka lani ka holowaʻa ua o Hilo.Placed in the heavens is the rain trough of Hilo [admiration for one of regal bearing].

honuaʻula.  n. a variety of sugar cane, a dark brown-red mutant of manulele, with purple leaf sheaths and leaves. (HP 221, 225). It was formerly used in medicine, and is one of the best canes for eating raw.

hou₆.  same as pakaweli, a variety of sugar cane.
 

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ʻiliʻōpua [ʻiliʻō·pua].  n. a variety of sugar cane like the kea but dwarfed. (HP 224, 225)
 

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kaawe [ka-a-we].  v. To tie any flexible thing tightly around the throat; to choke by tying the throat. To suspend; to hang up; generally by the neck; to strangle with a cord. Ios. 10:26. Kaawe ia ia iho a make, to commit suicide. Mat. 27:5. NOTE.—Kaawe rather applies to suicide; li, to a public execution by hanging. s. A suspension; a strangling, i. e., death. Iob. 7:15. A neckhandkerchief; a cravat; o ke kaawe kekahi mea e nani ai ka a-i kanaka, the cravat is what adorns the neck of a man.

kāʻawe₁.  nvt. to tie anything tightly around the neck, to choke, strangle, hang; necktie.

Kāʻawe ʻāʻī.Name of the manulele sugar cane when prayed over in hana aloha, love-making sorcery, to induce an absent person to fall in love; cf. manulele.

Ua kāʻawe ʻoia a make.He hanged himself until dead.

kāʻawe₂ [kā·ʻawe].  n. strap. [mān] see lole wāwae kāʻawe, palaʻili kāʻawe, paleʻili kāʻawe, coveralls, overalls...; tank top...; tank top...

kāʻawe kalipaslipper strap

kāniʻo₆ [kā·niʻo].  n. a variety of sugar cane.

kauila₅, kauwila [kau·ila, kau·wila].  a kind of black, tough sugar cane. also māikoiko, kō ʻeleʻele.

kea₃.  n. a variety of sugar cane, among Hawaiians one of the best-known and most-used canes, especially in medicine: clumps erect, dense, of medium height; pith white. (HP 223–5)

Ua ola ā ʻō kō kea.Living until kea cane tassels [until the hair turns gray].

kenikeni₄ [keni·keni].  n. a variety of imported white sugar cane; also called lahaina cane.

kō₁.  n. sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a large unbranched grass brought to Hawaiʻi by early Polynesians as a source of sugar and fiber. The thick stems are full of sweet juicy pulp. In time, many different kinds of cane were produced, with many different attributes and names. Cane yields one of the most valuable plant products known. For commercial purposes the yield has been increased by hybridizing with such success that the sugar industry was for many years the largest industry in Hawaiʻi. (For. 5:582–9) lists types of kō, all are listed in the Dictionary except kō malolo (also known as kō puhala and kō ʻailolo). cf. kea₃. (Neal 77–9) [PPN *too, sugarcane (saccharum officinarum)]

He ʻoi kēlā ʻo ke kanaka huhū … ʻaʻohe pū kō momona iāia.He's a very angry man … no clump of sugar cane will sweeten him up. [i.e., you can't mollify his anger]. (For. 5:209)

Kō ʻeli lima a ʻo Hālāliʻi.Hand-dug sugar cane of Hālāliʻi [famous in songs descriptive of Niʻihau; its stalks grew in sand with only the leaves protruding].

ko.  s. Sugar-cane; hence, sugar; molasses.

kōʻeleʻele.  same as māikoiko, a sugar cane.

kō honuaʻula.  same as honuaʻula, a sugar cane.

kō Kina.  n. a kind of sugar cane, 1857. lit., Chinese cane.

Kōmomona [Kō-momona].  n. wind associated with Kahauiki, Honolulu. lit., sweat sugar cane. (Nak. 57)

kōpaʻa [kō·paʻa].  n. sugar. lit., hard sugar cane.

kō Pākē [kō pā·kē].  n. a variety of sugar cane, probably imported by the Chinese.

kō pua ʻole.  n. a variety of flowerless sugar cane.
 

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lahaina₁.  n. a variety of sugar cane, usually free tasseling, heavy stooling, and with rather semierect to recumbent growth; large, long heavy tops. (HP 222)

lahi₂.  n. a variety of sugar cane; the yellow mutation of laukona, otherwise same as laukona without variegations and stripes and more robust in growth. also ʻuala lehu.

lahi [la-hi].  s. A species of white cane.

lahi kahakaha ʻākala [lahi kaha·kaha ʻā·kala].  n. a variety of sugar cane; a pink or light red, striped mutation of lahi₂, and otherwise same as lahi. lit., pink-striped lahi. (HP 223)

lākō [lā·kō].  n. sugar-cane leaf (same as lāʻō, contraction of lau kō).

lako [la-ko].  s. For lauko. The leaf of the sugar-cane.

laukona [lau·kona].  n. a variety of sugar cane with green and yellow striped canes and leaves; used in sorcery, because of the meaning of laukōnā, to break the influence of the hana aloha love magic and change love into hatred. also manini.

laukonakona [lau·kona·kona].  same as laukona, var. of sugar cane... (HP 225)

lauloa₂ [lau·loa].  n. a variety of sugar cane. When young, yellow-green, striped with light yellow-brown; with exposure, a deep olive, striped with dark brown-red; broad, long, green leaves; large stalks. (HP 222, 225)

lauʻō₁.  n. sugar-cane leaf (same as lau kō).

lauo [lau-o].  s. See lau. The leaf of the sugar-cane. See lao.

lehu₂.  n. a variety of sugar cane, probably recently introduced, extensively planted by Hawaiians. The stunted mature stalks look dead except for their green leaves. A gray to green-brown frosted-looking cane covered with hairs; pith green-white; both sides of leaves bearing long scattered hairs. (HP 224, 225)
 

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māikoiko₁ [mā·iko·iko].  n. a common variety of sugar cane relished for chewing, named for maiko, a fish; stems blackish; leaves light yellow-green tinged with red; pith dark-brown; seldom flowery. also ʻeleʻele, kō ʻeleʻele, kauila, nika. (HP 223, 224)

māikoiko kahakaha [mā·iko·iko kaha·kaha].  n. a variety of sugar cane, a buff-brown and striped maroon when young, becoming olive brown and very deep purple on exposure. Readily mutates to māikoiko. (HP 223)

makaʻā₂.  n. a variety of sugar cane.

manini₄.  n. a variety of sugar cane, named for the fish. also laukona.

manulele [manu·lele].  n. a native variety of sugar cane, the stems green striped with yellowish and reddish brown, the pith brown, the leaves purplish. Used medicinally, also in love sorcery. lit., flying bird. (HP 221), (Neal 79). see ex. kāʻawe.

māʻoheʻohe₂.  n. a variety of sugar cane.

mikioi₃ [miki·oi].  n. a native variety of sugar cane. (HP 225)

mīkokoi₂ [mīko·koi].  n. a native variety of sugar cane; a lighter brown-red mutant of manulele without purple cast to leaves and sheath. (HP 221)

moano₃.  n. a native variety of sugar cane, named for the fish; a red cane becoming dark-purple; pith dark-brown. (HP 224)

moho₃.  vi. to unfold, of leaves, especially upper leaf of a plant, as sugar cane, taro. [(CE) PPN *moho, come into leaf: *mo(f,s)o]

moho [mo-ho].  v. To evolve or show the upper or top leaf of a plant of sugar-cane, kalo, &c.; to bud out; to break or unfold, as the bud into leaves.

muʻoiki [muʻo·iki].  vi. narrowing, tapering; to bud but a little, to cease budding.

Ulu akula ke kō a muʻoiki.The sugar cane grew until it ceased budding.
 

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naʻaukake₂ [naʻau·kake].  n. same as uahiapele₁, a variety of sugar cane.

nānahu₂ [nā·nahu].  n. a native variety of sugar cane, the red mutant of ʻakilolo ʻulaʻula. (HP 220)

nika₂.  same as māikoiko, a variety of sugar cane.
 

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ʻō₂.  nvt.
  • any piercing instrument, fork, pin, skewer, harpoon, sharp-pointed stick, pitchfork, fishing spear;
  • coconut husker;
  • sharp darting body pain;
  • to pierce, vaccinate, prick, stab, thrust;
  • to flash, as lightning;
  • to extend;
  • to dip in, as the finger;
  • to reach, to appear;
  • to force a way out;
  • to fall into, tumble out;
  • to tassel, as sugar cane.
  cf. ʻōahi, ʻō lima. [(OC) PPN *koho, digging stick, husking stake: *ko(h,s)o]

He ʻō ʻia ka mea hāwāwā i ka heʻe nalu.One unskilled in surfing is given a tumble. (ON 855)

hoʻōto cause to enter, put or dip in, thrust in, insert; to reach in

Hoʻō akula ʻo Hiku i ka ʻuhane o Kawelu ma nā wāwae.Hiku caused Kawelu's soul to enter at the feet. (For. 5:189)

hoʻō ʻomato put in an oven

hoʻō poʻoto rush headlong regardless of consequence

ka ʻō ʻana o ka uilathe flash of lightning

ʻŌ aku ʻoia i kona mau lima i ka poʻe nele.He extended his hands to the needy. (Sol. 31.20)

Ua ʻō kō kea.The white sugar cane has tasseled [to gray with age].

o.  v. To pierce, as with a sharp instrument; to dot into; to prick; to stab. SYN. with hou and ou. See ou. To thrust; to thrust through; to gore, as a bullock. Puk. 21:28. A o iho la kekahi i ka polulu, some one pierced him with a long spear. See Oo. PASS. To be pierced, stabbed; hence, to be killed; to be pierced with a spear; mai oia ke kanaka i ka ihe. Oia, passive of o, to plunge under water, as a canoe or surf-board. To extend or reach out, as the hand or finger; o ka mea e ae mai, e o mai lakou i ko lakou lima, those who assent, let them stretch out their hands; to stretch out the hand to take a thing. Kin. 8:9. To stretch out the hand to trouble or afflict. Puk. 8:2. To dip, as the fingers in a fluid. Oihk. 4:6. Hoo, for hoo-o. To stretch out, as the hand. Puk. 14:27. To thrust in the hand or finger into an orifice. Anat. 45. s. Art., ke. An instrument to pierce with; any sharp pointed instrument; a fork; a sharp stick; ke o bipi, an ox goad. Lunk. 3:30. Ke o manamana kolu, a three-pronged fork. 1 Sam. 2:13. The effect for the cause; a sharp pain in the body; a stitch in the side, as if pierced by a sharp instrument; a keen darting pain in the side of the chest.

ʻoheʻala.  n. var. spelling of ʻohe ʻala, sweet cane.

ʻohe ʻala, ʻoheʻala.  n. sweet cane. (Isa. 43.24)

oheala [o-he-a-la].  s. Ohe and ala, sweet. Sweet cane; a vegetable offered in sacrifice. Isa. 43:24. Sweet calamus. Puk. 30:23.

ʻōhiʻa₃ [ʻō·hiʻa].  n. a native variety of sugar cane: deep-red and green striped cane when young, becoming bronze-red and yellow-brown on exposure (like leaves and flowers of the ʻōhiʻa ʻai, the source of its name); leaves somewhat variegated. (HP 222, 225)

ʻōlelo [ʻō·lelo].  nvt. language, speech, word, quotation, statement, utterance, term, tidings; to speak, say, state, talk, mention, quote, converse, tell; oral, verbatim, verbal, motion (in early House of Nobles regulations). cf. ex. nui₁: hoʻonui ʻōlelo, verbose. cf. hua ʻōlelo, kuʻu ʻōlelo, lunaʻōlelo, mahele ʻōlelo, piliʻōlelo, uea ʻōlelo, word...; make known...; apostle...; interpreter...; grammar...; telegraph wire... [(NP) PPN *koo-lelo, speak, orate, recite]

ʻaʻohe ʻōlelo ʻananot worth mentioning

i kekahi manawa i ʻōlelo ʻiaat a specified time

Inā ʻoe e makemake i ke kō, ʻaʻohe ʻōlelo ʻana, naʻu e kiʻi.If you want some sugar cane, don't say anything about it; I'll get some.

ʻo John Owen i ʻōlelo ʻiathe aforesaid [or alleged] John Owen

ʻōlelo a nā hōʻikeevidence, as in court; lit., word of the witnesses

ʻōlelo ʻia maluna aʻeabove-mentioned

ʻōlelo mai nā kūpuna maitradition, traditional lore

olelo [o-le-lo].  v. See leo, voice, and lelo, the tongue. To speak; to say; (it implies a more formal or longer speech than i or hai); to converse. To teach; to call; to invite, as to a feast. Ioan. 2:12. To give a name. Isa. 56:7. E olelo hooweliweli, to threaten. Oih. 4:17. E olelo hooino, to curse. Nal. 22:17. E olelo hoomaikai, to bless; e olelo hoonani,to glorify; e olelo pohihi, to speak mystically, darkly. Ioan. 16:25. Opposite to olelo akaka. Ioan.16:20. s. A word; a speech; language. Counsel; plan; promise; an address; he mau olelo umi, the ten commandments. Puk. 34:28. Kana olelo, his word, i. e., that which one has spoken; kona olelo, what is said about him; kahi e olelo ai, an oracle; a place to utter an oracle. 1 Nal. 6:19, 20. adv. Pane olelo, to speak a word; to answer a word. 2 Sam. 3:11.

ʻoliana₂ [ʻoli·ana].  n. a variety of sugar cane, like lahaina in type of growth and color, but the pith dark-brown and the leaf sheath covered with red-brown hairs. also ʻoleana. Eng. (Oriental).

opū.  n. var. spelling of ōpū₁, clump, as of sugar cane, bananas, kava; cluster. cf. pū₄.

ōpū₁, opū [ō·pū].  n. clump, as of sugar cane, bananas, kava; cluster. cf. pū₄. see ex. ʻahuʻawa.

opukea [opu·kea].  n. a large, strong, superior variety of sugar cane, the stalks yellow, sometimes rose-flushed, the pith white. (HP 223)

opukea [o-pu-kea].  s. See kokea, Kam.
 

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paʻapaʻa₄ [paʻa·paʻa].  n. a kind of sugar cane. also hoʻopaʻapaʻa.

pae kō.  n. cultivation of sugar cane growing along a border.

pailolo₁ [pai·lolo].  n. a variety of sugar cane. also hou, pakaweli.

pakaiea₂ [pakai·ea].  n. same as halāliʻi, a variety of sugar cane; named for the seaweed.

pākaikai₃ [pā·kai·kai].  same as pakaiea₁, ₂, ₃, ₄, ₅, seaweed; sugarcane; taro; wind; wave...

pakaweli₁ [paka·weli].  n. a variety of sugar cane, with different names on different islands. A deep purple-red and green striped cane resembling ʻakilolo but the leaves somewhat variegated; also producing mutants of solid yellow and red, like nānahu, pilimai. also hou, pailolo.

pakē₂.  n. a variety of sugar cane.

palani₃.  n. a variety of sugar cane, short, purple with deep olive-green cast when young, changing to reddish-yellow on exposure, pith dark. Probably the parent of ʻakoki. Sometimes qualified by hao or ʻula. (For. 5:585)

palani [pa-la-ni].  s. A species of sugar-cane.

pāpaʻa₄ [pā·paʻa].  n. a red sugar cane with light-brown fibers; it has an odor similar to burnt sugar, hence its name. Used in love sorcery.

pele₃.  n. choice Kauaʻi tapa (FS 252–3), scented with maile and kūpaoa, said to be gray and dyed with charcoal made of burned sugar cane mixed with coconut water (preceded by ke).

pele ʻiliahipele tapa scented with sandalwood and associated with Kahana, Kauaʻi (GP 8)

pilikoʻa₂ [pili·koʻa].  a native variety of sugar cane named for the fish; stems yellow-green, with pale brown-red stripes when young, changing to bronze-yellow with darker brown-red stripes.

pilimai₁ [pili·mai].  n. a native variety of sugar cane, a yellow-green mutant of ʻakilolo; used in hana aloha, love sorcery, with the prayer for love to cling and hold fast.

pōhina₄ [pō·hina].  n. a variety of sugar cane, red or brown, similar to uahiapele but less vigorous, dying back after tasseling. (HP 223, 225)

pōkiʻi₂ [pō·kiʻi].  n. second or final brewing, as of ti root or sugar cane.

pū₄.  n. tree, cluster of several stalks, as of bananas [pū maiʻa], pandanus [pū hala], or kava [pū ʻawa]; clump, as of sugar cane [pū kō]. (always precedes a noun). also ōpū. [(NP) PPN *puʻu, base of a tree]

pua₁.  nvi. flower, blossom, tassel and stem of sugar cane; to bloom, blossom. [(EP) PPN *pua, to flower; flower, blossom]

E hauʻoli hoʻi ka wao akua, ā e pua mai hoi.The wilderness shall be glad and blossom too. (Isa. 35.1)

pāpale pua, pāpale pua kōhat made of stem of sugar cane

Pua ka wiliwili, nanahu ka manō.The wiliwili tree blooms, the sharks bite [a blossoming girl is desired by males; sharks are believed to mate when the wiliwili blooms and to be especially ferocious]. (ON 2701)

pua [pu-a].  v. To blossom, as a plant; to put forth blossoms or flowers. Isa. 35:1. To bud, as fruit or flowers. Mel. Sol. 6:11. s. A blossom; a flower; a carving in imitation of a flower. Puk. 25:31.

pua₄.  n. arrow, dart, sometimes made from flower stalks of sugar cane.

pua [pu-a].  The upper part of the sugar-cane when it blossoms, as pua ko, and which was used for arrows, and in modern times by children in play, as hoolei pua; hence, an arrow for shooting in connection with the kakaka or bow.

pūʻā₂.  nvt. sheaf, bundle, as of grain or fuel that is not wrapped; binder, bunch, package; clump, as of sugar cane (Kel. 116); to tie in bundles, bind.

I ka pūʻā ʻana a kākou i nā pūʻā.We were binding sheaves. (Kin. 37.7)

pūʻā ʻiʻobundle of flesh

pua [pu-a].  To tie up in bundles; to bind in bundles, as sheaves of grain. Kin. 37:7. To tie in bundles, as the bones of the dead; a paa kona mau iwi i ka puaia, when his bones were tied up. To bunch, as cards when there is a mistake made in dealing them out; e pua i ka pepa, no ka mea ua hewa ka haawi ana. A bundle of sticks; a sheaf of grain or grass. Kin. 37:7.

puahala₂ [pua·hala].  n. a variety of sugar cane.

pua kō.  n. stem and tassel of sugar cane (the stem was used in making hats).

pāpale puapāpale pua kō, hat made of sugar-cane stem

puako [pu-a-ko].  s. The top and blossom part, including the leaves of sugar-cane; oia no ka malama e owili ai ka puako.

pua ʻole.  n. same as ʻāwela, a flowerless (pua ʻole) sugar cane.

pūkea₁ [pū·kea].  same as ʻainakea, a sugar cane.

pū kō.  n. clump of sugar cane. cf. pū kō koʻo.

ʻAʻohe pū kō momonathere is no clump of sugar cane that can sweeten him [said of a great warrior who has no worthy foe, of one in great anger, or of a dreadful situation] (For. 5:407)

pulapula₁ [pula·pula].  n. seedlings, sprouts, cuttings, as of sugar cane. [(OC) PPN *pulapula, propagation material for root crops]

ʻāina hoʻopulapulahomesteading lands, especially for rehabilitation of Hawaiians

hoʻopulapula lāhuirehabilitation of the nation

hoʻopulapula₁to start seedlings or cuttings; to multiply, procreate

hoʻopulapula₂to rehabilitate; rehabilitation

nā hana hoʻopulapula ma Iāpanarehabilitation acts in Japan

pulapula [pula·pula].  n. cutting, as of a plant.

pulapula [pu-la-pu-la].  The tops of sugar-cane cut for planting.

puna₃.  n. section between joints or nodes, as of bamboo or sugar cane. [(NP) PPN *puŋa, prominence such as a joint]

puna [pu-na].  A joint of sugar-cane or bamboo; also written pona.

punapuna₂ [puna·puna].  redup. of puna₃; jointed. (KL. line 60)

he punapuna nohoʻi e like me ke kōjointed too, like sugar cane [of kava] (For. 5:607)

puʻupuʻu₄ [puʻu·puʻu].  n. eyes at a joint, as of sugar cane or kava.
 

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uahiapele₁ [uahi-a-Pele].  n. a native variety of sugar cane, heavy-stooling, light red-purple, the nodes hairy-fringed, the internodes sausage-shaped. also naʻaukake. (HP 223, 225)

ʻuala₂, ʻuwala.  n. a variety of sugar cane, a yellow mutant of ʻakoki with large stalks; often called pilimai and similar to it but stronger. (HP 221, 225)

ʻuala lehu₁.  same as lahi, a variety of sugar cane. (HP 222)

uhu₂.  n. a variety of sugar cane.

ʻulaʻula₇.  n. a variety of sugar cane. (HP 222, 225)

uleʻohiʻu.  n. a type of sugar cane, unknown in 1978, once used as a salve (For. 5:585) ; perhaps the same as ʻāwela melemele and uluhui. (HP 225)

ūpē [ū·pē].  vs.
  • crushed, flattened;
  • humble, bashful;
  • dry and juiceless, as sugar cane.
  (Gram. 6.3.3)   [(CE) PPN *kupe, ??]

hale maka ūpēhumble-appearing house

hoʻoūpēto crush, belittle, flatten, treat contemptuously (Kep. 107)

upe [u-pe].  s. A living with quietness and propriety after having been mischievous and wicked; ka upe, opepe, hoolulelule; e upe ana i na malua nui o Hawaii.
 

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waiʻōhiʻa [waiʻō·hiʻa].  n. a variety of sugar cane.

wehe hala.  n.v. to remove a personal transgression by prayer, with or without offering; remission of sins; name for sugar cane used in such ceremonies.

wili kō.  n.v. sugar mill, sugar grinder, to grind sugar cane.

wiliko [wi-li-ko].  v. Wili and ko, sugar-cane. To grind sugar-cane. To manufacture sugar in general.