"ʻuala kahiki" meaning in Hawaiian

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Noun

Etymology: From ʻuala ("sweet potato") + kahiki ("foreign"). Head templates: {{head|haw|noun}} ʻuala kahiki
  1. potato, Solanum tuberosum
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        [
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          "Solanum tuberosum#Translingual"
        ]
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    }
  ],
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}
{
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  "head_templates": [
    {
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      },
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        "Hawaiian lemmas",
        "Hawaiian links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Hawaiian links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Hawaiian multiword terms",
        "Hawaiian nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "haw:Root vegetables"
      ],
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Hawaiian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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