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pili.kai

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

n.

1. A vine (Stictocardia tiliaefolia) in the morning-glory family, native from India eastward, possibly into Polynesia, long known in Hawaiʻi, as on roadsides and rocky shores. Flowers are funnel-shaped, rose-purple, about 5.1 cm in diameter, the leaves heartshaped. (Neal 702.)

2. The wood rose (Merremia tuberosa), another kind of morning-glory, with deep yellow flowers and five-to seven-lobed leaves, grown ornamentally in Hawaiʻi for its dry, brown, rose-shaped fruit. (Neal 709.)

PI-LI-KAI

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. A kind of medicine consisting of some kind of seeds, one handful, beaten up and sifted and taken as a purgative.

2. The name of a shrub, the seeds of which are used for medicinal purposes, especially to children as a cathartic.

3. A kind of berry growing near the sea shore.

Pilikai (pī'-lĭ-kă'i), n.

/ pī'-lĭ-kă'i / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. A plant creeper (Argyreia tiliaefolia), found only along rocky shores.

2. The berry of the pilikai which is used as medicine.

Pili-kai

Wahi ｜ Location, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Street, ʻĀina-Haina, Honolulu, named for a medicinal plant. (TM.)

pilikai

Haw to Eng, Land Terms (1995),

Shore.

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