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1. vi., To rustle, as leaves or the sea; rumbling; groping with the hands, as in searching.

• Examples:
  • Nehe lani, rumbling of thunder in the sky.

2. n., Taffeta, so called because it rustles (nehe).

• Examples:
  • Nehe lau, brocaded taffeta.

3. Same as kī nehe (Bidens pilosa 🌐); young plants, just before flowering, are cooked for tea.

• Related:
  • Also: kī, kī pipili.
• References:
  • Cf. koʻokoʻolau #2.

4. n., Native shrubs and herbs (Lipochaeta 🌐 spp.) in the daisy family, with yellow flowers.

• References:
  • Neal 840.

5. n., Some kinds of pond scums (Spirogyra 🌐 spp.), fine fresh-water algae, consisting of rows of single-celled filaments, each cell containing ribbonshaped spirals.

• Related:
  • Also: limu kala wai, līpalaʻō, līpālāwai, palaʻo, pālāwai.

hehele, To rustle, as leaves or the sea.

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  • Existing dictionary word

v., To make a rustling noise, as shuffling the feet or drumming with the fingers; to rumble slightly; to seratch on something capable of making a noise. See nenehe, neneke and kamumu.

s., A rustling sound, as in walking; a rumor of a thing done. See nene.

s., A plant having flowers resembling May-weed.

n., A plant having flowers resembling May-weed. Name given to shrubs of the genus Lipochaeta.

1. n., A rustling sound, as in walking.

2. n., A rumor of a thing done. Syn: nene.

3. n., Quiet moving; a moving stealthily.

v., To make a rustling noise, as shuffling the feet or drumming with the fingers; to rumble slightly; to scratch on something capable of making a noise.

Prostrate or perennial herbs and small shrubs (Lipochaeta spp.). Twenty-six species of Lipochaeta are known, twenty-four of which are native to Hawaiʻi. (NEAL 840.)