Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Throughout Polynesia, a generic name for mosses and seaweeds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as
Limu Lipoa ,Limu palawai , etc.
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- noun
Hawaiian algae , an important part of the ancient Hawaiiandiet
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Hawaii, the native tradition of eating seaweed, called limu, has melded with the diets of Asian immigrants.
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The brief duty visit over, Martha arose and accompanied her back to the bungalow, putting money into her hand, commanding proud and beautiful Japanese housemaids to wait upon the dilapidated aborigine with poi, which is compounded of the roots of the water lily, with iamaka, which is raw fish, and with pounded kukui nut and limu, which latter is seawood tender to the toothless, digestible and savoury.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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And behold, everything was got, from the choicest of royal taro to sugar-cane joints for the roasting, from opihis to limu, from fowl to wild pig and poi-fed puppies — everything save one thing.
The Water Baby 2010
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Yes, and careless that all should see his extended favour, I must dip into his pa paakai for my pinches of red salt, and limu, and kukui nut and chili pepper; and into his ipu kai "(fish sauce dish)" of kou wood that the great Kamehameha himself had eaten from on many a similar progress.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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And behold, everything was got, from the choicest of royal taro to sugar-cane joints for the roasting, from opihis to limu, from fowl to wild pig and poi-fed puppies — everything save one thing.
THE WATER BABY 2010
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The hands of both of them, little altered or defaced by age, were wonderful in their slender, tapering finger-tips, love-lomied and love-formed while they were babies by old Hawaiian women like to the one even then eating poi and iamaka and limu in the house.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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Some red algae, including the limu kohu of Hawaii Asparagopsis, accumulate compounds of bromine and iodine, and can have a strong iodine flavor.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Best eaten with sour poi, raw onions, limu and chili pepper!
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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Some red algae, including the limu kohu of Hawaii Asparagopsis, accumulate compounds of bromine and iodine, and can have a strong iodine flavor.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Seaweed and fresh-water weed are much relished by Hawaiians, and there were four or five kinds for sale, all included in the term limu.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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