Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name widely used throughout the islands of the Pacific Ocean for plants having myrtle-like leaves, and especially applied in certain groups to Gynopogon, a genus of plants belonging to the Apocynaceæ, which have the agreeable fragrance of coumarin.
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- noun A flowering
Hawaiian vine , of the genus Alyxia, used to makelei
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Examples
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In their ranks, and typical of their quality, waddled the old kanaka maile gatherer, Kimo.
Hawaii Michener, James 1959
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Ia manawa, kaili mai la ka mea ume i ka maile a kau aku la maluna o
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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Hele aku la ua mea ume nei a loaa o Hinaikamalama, kau aku la i ka maile a kaili mai la.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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In the latter case, he would have had to park a half maile away to be safe.
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P.D. says: blue@3, I already e-maile Discovery and told them I refused to watch them.
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Scattered across these snowdrifts were summery eruptions of color: Japanese and Hawaiian women selling leis of red ginger, yellow orchids, green maile, pink plumeria, and golden 'ilima blossoms.
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I know only that I was good to look upon, crowned with fragrant maile, clad in Princess Naomi's wonderful holoku loaned me by Uncle John from his taboo room; and I know that I advanced alone to him across the Mana lawn, and that he stepped forth from those about him to meet me half-way.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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In the latter case, he would have had to park a half maile away to be safe.
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And it was on to Kilauea — the dream so near its ending; and of course we tossed into the pit of sea-surging lava our offerings to the Fire-Goddess of maile leis and of fish and hard poi wrapped moist in the ti leaves.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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Scattered across these snowdrifts were summery eruptions of color: Japanese and Hawaiian women selling leis of red ginger, yellow orchids, green maile, pink plumeria, and golden 'ilima blossoms.
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