Wehewehe Wikiwiki Hawaiian language dictionaries

1. n., Pinworm, as in the rectum; white specks in feces; larvae, as of mosquitos; worm in dung or in taro.

• References:
  • See pala naio.
  • PCP ngaio.

2. n., Inferior taro left in the field after the crop is removed.

3. n., The bastard sandalwood (Myoporum sandwicense 🌐), a native tree, with hard, dark yellow-green wood, scented like sandalwood. Leaves are narrow-oblong, pointed, grouped at branch ends; flowers are small, pink or white; fruit, small, white, round.

• References:
  • Neal 791.
  • Cf. ʻaʻaka.

4. n., Name of a seaweed.

Bastard sandalwood (Myoporum sandwicense), found at levels between the seashore and 10,000 feet in Hawaiʻi. The wood is hard, dark yellow-green, and scented like sandalwood. In the waning sandalwood trade it was often substituted for the actual wood. (NEAL 791.)

Bastard sandalwood tree (Myoporum sandwicense). Found at sea level to 10,000 feet. An unwelcome substitute for sandalwood when the supply ran out. As a firewood it burns like pitch pine. It is a strong timber used in buildingsʻ main timbers. (NEAL 791.)

Bastard sandalwood tree (Myoporum sandwicense). This tree supplied a substitute wood, ʻaʻaka, to the sandalwood trade when the true sandalwood tree had disappeared commercially. The Chinese merchants would not accept it. Timbers of the naio were used as posts in the Hawaiian house. The yellow-green heartwood has a fragrance somewhat similar to the original ʻili ahi. (KILO.)

intestinal worms.