kukui
English
Etymology
From Hawaiian.
Noun
kukui (plural kukuis)
- (Hawaii) Aleurites moluccana, the candlenut tree.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 43:
- Passing through a grove of kukui trees, with their silver-gray leaves, and then through a valley, they would have reached sugarcane fields, their stalks as tall as a man and densely clumped together.
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