lehua
See also: Lehua
English
Etymology
From Hawaiian.
Noun
lehua (plural lehuas)
- The flower or wood of a Polynesian tree (Metrosideros collinus); the tree itself.
- 1910, The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist (page 165)
- Here were the three tents overshadowed by the great lehuas, still brilliant with their cardinal blossoms.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 222:
- After breakfast, she looked forward to the bouquet of red lehua blossoms and other flowers brought to her every day.
- 1910, The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist (page 165)
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