- pandanus
- Hala (for various kinds, see Haw.-Eng. entry and entries that follow it). See sayings, hala iwi nui, pala lau hala.♦ Pandanus tree, pū hala.♦ Pandanus trunk, kumu hala.♦ Male pandanus tree, hala hīnano, hala hīnalo.♦ Female pandanus tree, hala hua.♦ Pandanus leaf, lau hala; ko'o, 'i'oko'o, mu'o hala, pū'awa, pūkani; pililā'ele (young); lā'ele (old); pala lau hala, pa'ilau'ula (dry).♦ Bundle of forty leaves, kī.♦ Male blossom, bracts, hīnano, polohīnano.♦ Pandanus fruit, 'āhui hala; polopoloua (unripe); polokā (ripe); kā'ao, kāō (very ripe).♦ Pandanus fruit stem, polope'a.♦ Pandanus key, hala; pani (at bottom of cluster); hala 'i'o (ripe); hala iwi nui (upper hard portion); pua hala (yellow base).♦ Nut in key, hala hua, 'i'o hala.♦ Pandanus fruit core, 'īkoi.♦ Pandanus root tip, mu'o hala.♦ Pandanus aerial root, ule hala, uleule hala.♦ Lumps of pandanus trunk, pu'upu'u hala.♦ Width of pandanus plaiting strip, koana.♦ Pandanus lei, lei hala (not worn by some because of double meaning; see hala1,2).♦ Puna, where sea blasts amid pandanus (PH 2), 'o Puna kai kuwā i ka hala.
English-Hawaiian dictionary. 2015.