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1. n., Short for honohono kukui.

• References:
  • PPN hongohongo .

2. n., The wandering Jew or dayflower (Commelina diffusa 🌐), known in many temperate and tropical countries, a creeping weed, rooting at the joints, and bearing grasslike, ovate leaves and small bright-blue flowers.

• Related:
  • Also: honohono wai, and mākolokolo.
• References:
  • Neal 185.
  • Cf. honohono ʻula.

3. n., A very rare native mint (Haplostachys haplostachya 🌐), a downy erect herb with oblong or narrower leaves and white flowers.

• References:
  • Neal 732.

4. See ʻokika honohono.

5. Same as hohono, bad-smelling.

6. n., A children's game; the child locked fingers of two hands and thrust them into the sand, letting the sand out through a small opening.

s. Name of a weed, very thrifty in growth and very hard to kill.

adj. Bad smelling. See HOHONO.

Having an odor or scent. Syn: Hohono.

A species of long decumbent grass (Oplismenus compositus) common in the outskirts and open glades of forests and along water courses.

a weed (Oplismensus compositus). Land section, Wailuku, Maui.

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Wandering Jew (Commelina diffusa). (NEAL 185.) See Plants: Uses.

Wandering Jew (Commelina diffusa), a low-creeping weed with small, irregularly-shaped, bright blue, paired flowers. They last but a day. In Hawaiʻi it is a rapid-growing, succulent plant, covering the ground even in the shade. Honohono is relished by cattle and is used as food in dairies. It is sometimes eaten raw or cooked by humans. (NEAL 185.)