Hawaiian word senses marked with lifeform category "Plants"
Parent categories: Lifeforms, Life, Nature
Subcategories: Apiales order plants, Asparagales order plants, Borage family plants, Caryophyllales order plants, Commelinids, Cucurbitales order plants, Dioscoreales order plants, Fabales order plants, Flowers, Fruits, Gentianales order plants, Malpighiales order plants, Malvales order plants, Nightshades, Nuts, Pandanales order plants, Polynesian canoe plants, Rosales order plants, Shrubs, Spore plants, Succulents, Trees, Vegetables, Water plants
Total 55 word senses
- hala (Noun) screw pine, pandanus (Pandanus tectorius)
- hala kahiki (Noun) pineapple (plant, fruit)
- hau (Noun) sea hibiscus, cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus)
- hue (Noun) bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria
- hue (Noun) bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria; Any container using the dried shell of this plant, calabash.
- hīnano (Noun) The fragrant male flower of the pandanus
- ianakama (Noun) ginseng (any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius))
- ipu (Noun) bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)
- kalo (Noun) taro; colocasia
- kamakuaka (Noun) kumquat
- kiawe (Noun) kiawe (Prosopis pallida)
- kiele (Noun) gardenia
- koali (Noun) morning glory
- kou (Determiner) your second person singular, o-type
- kuikui (Noun) Niʻihau form of kukui (“candlenut”)
- kukui (Noun) Aleurites moluccana, the candlenut tree and fruit
- kupukupu (Noun) fern (generic term)
- kī (Noun) ti (Cordyline fruticosa)
- kō (Determiner) your second person singular possessive, both o- and a-type
- kō (Noun) sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum)
- lena (Noun) turmeric
- lepeamoa (Noun) cockscomb (Celosia cristata)
- lepelepe-o-hina (Noun) seaweed (marine plants and algae)
- lepelepeamoa (Noun) Selaginella arbusculla (variety of spike moss used in leis)
- lilikoʻi (Noun) passion fruit
- loke (Noun) rose
- loukuaka (Noun) loquat
- maile (Noun) maile
- maipoinaiaʻu (Noun) forget-me-not (flower)
- maiʻa (Noun) banana (plant; fruit)
- melia (Noun) frangipani
- nanahana (Noun) The ginkgo tree
- niu (Noun) coconut (fruit of coco palm)
- noni (Noun) A Polynesian tree with fruits traditionally used as medicine, Morinda citrifolia
- nīoi (Noun) red pepper (Capsicum annuum)
- palānaka (Noun) A winged bean plant (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus)
- pia (Noun) Polynesian arrowroot
- pānini (Noun) cactus
- pīkake (Noun) Arabian jasmine, Jasminum sambac, an introduced flower used in leis
- pōhue (Noun) A gourd
- uhi (Noun) yam (Dioscorea)
- waiohinu (Noun) dahlia
- wauke (Noun) The paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyifera, used to make kapa
- ʻakaʻakai (Noun) A slender grass once used for thatching houses in Hawaii (Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani)
- ʻape (Noun) a large-leafed plant in the Araceae, related to taro, Alocasia macrorrhiza
- ʻawapuhi (Noun) Shampoo ginger, Zingiber zerumbet
- ʻiliahi (Noun) sandalwood (tree; its wood)
- ʻohe (Noun) any of a number of plants in Hawaii resembling the bamboo
- ʻuala (Noun) sweet potato
- ʻuala kahiki (Noun) potato, Solanum tuberosum
- ʻulu (Noun) breadfruit
- ʻōhelo (Noun) Any Vaccinium species
- ʻōhelo papa (Noun) strawberry (plant, fruit)
- ʻōlena (Noun) turmeric
- ʻūlei (Noun) Osteomeles anthyllidifolia, a native Hawai'ian shrub whose tough wood is traditionally used to make a variety of tools and weapons
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