Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Hawaii, a climbing screw-pine, Freycinetia arborea, from the aërial roots of which baskets (called
hinae opae ) are made by the natives, who use them for catching shrimp in the mountain streams. In Samoa the name is applied to Freycinetia Reineckei, from which fish-baskets are made. - noun Garlands made of the leaves of the ie-ie.
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Examples
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Laka was invoked as the god of the maile, the ie-ie, and other wildwood growths before mentioned (pl.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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