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1. vs., Sacred, holy, majestic, dignified; treated with reverence or respect.

• Related:
  • hōʻihi
    • a. To treat thus; to hallow.
    • b. Tapa or pandanus fitted into a hoop and placed on the head of an attendant (kahu), serving as a holder for a food container from which the chief or favorite child was served, a means of bestowing high honor.

2. n., Wood sorrels (Oxalis 🌐, all species), perennial weedy herbs, creeping or not, and bearing cloverlike leaves and yellow, white, red, or pink bell-shaped flowers. The plants have a pleasant sour taste due to oxalic acid.

• Related:
  • Known to some as Portulaca 🌐 spp.
• References:
  • Neal 473–4.
  • PPN kisi .

3. See hue wai ʻihi.

Yellow wood sorrell (Oxalis corniculata). The leaves and bulbous roots of the ʻihi and ʻihi maka ʻula supply a cathartic.

Yellow wood sorrel (Oxalis corniculata). Wood sorrels are all oxalis. This one is a creeping perennial herb. Flowers have a pleasant, sour taste due to oxalic acid. (NEAL 473.) See Plants: Uses.

Mountain plant. The root is slightly cathartic. (A.) Yellow wood sorrel (Oxalis corniculata), a weedy oxalis, a creeping perennial herb. It has a sour taste due to the presence of oxalic acid. This plant, and a form with red stems and leaves and orange flowers, ʻihi-maka-ʻula or ʻihi-makole, is used medicinally by Hawaiians. (NEAL 473.)