akule
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Hawaiian [Term?]
Noun
akule (plural akule)
- (Hawaii) The bigeye scad, Selar crumenophthalmus.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 122:
- Residents of the island also told of a school of red akule fish that had been spotted in the waters off the island of Hawai‘i, which traditionally foretold the death of an ali‘i.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 122:
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