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NI-OI
s. The name of a bush or tree.
2. Red pepper, a species with small round pods.
3. The name of a poison tree which is said to have grown on Lanai and Molokai and whose touch was fatal; it was fabled to have been entered by the god Kalaipaihoa o Kahuilaokalani, and thence became a poison tree and was worshiped as a god. See the kaao.
Nioi (nī'-ōi), n.
/ nī'-ōi /1. A scraggy tree of medium height, the wood of which was used in witchcraft. Called also kahuilaokalani, the poison tree.
2. The pepper plant and its fruit.
Nioi
Place, Wilhelmina Rise, Honolulu, Oʻahu, named for the red pepper plant or for a tree, Eugenia molokaiana, that when growing at Maunaloa, Molokaʻi, was said to be poisonous.
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nioi
Red pepper (Capsicum annuum), a small, tropical American shrub. Fruits are podlike berries with many seeds, commonly red and globose to long and narrow. Some are grown for their hot fruits, which are used for their flavoring or as a vegetable. Since about 1815 a red pepper with narrow, inch-long, coneshaped fruits has been growing in Hawaiʻi. The peppery, red fruits are used to flavor food. (NEAL 741.)
nioi
chili pepper plant and fruit.
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