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• Ridge above Wilhelmina Rise, Honolulu, Oʻahu. The Oʻahu chief Kākuhihewa is said to have died here.
• Also, the name of a heiau, ridge, and cone, Pālolo Valley, Honolulu, Oʻahu, where Kāne and Kanaloa wrestled and trampled down the grass so that it withered (Jarrett 28).

Literally, wilted grass.

Beach, South Kohala, Hawaiʻi. Large pocket of calcareous sand with low vegetated dunes in the backshore. The beachfront estate above this secluded beach was for many years the home of Lurline Matson Roth, daughter of Captain William Matson, the founder of the Matson Navigation Company. Literally, wilted grass.