Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several trees, but particularly the Malay apple, Caryophyllus Malaccensis. (See
Malay apple , under Malay.) It is often calledohia-ai (edible ohia), in distinction fromohia-lehua (flowering ohia), Metrosideros polymorpha, a related tree. Seelehua .
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- noun Either of two trees of the
myrtle family native toHawaii , the lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha) and the Malay apple (Syzygium malaccense).
Etymologies
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Examples
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A third type of forest grows above the ohia up to 9,500 ft (2,900 m) on Maui and Hawaii.
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September 30, 2009 at 12:05 pm congratumalations, annipuss! may ai offer yu some relazing hot chockolit before bed? adn also, ai did not get a chanse tu say ohia proppily on teh otter lol – *extends floofy paw of friendship*
Iz only - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Wetter areas up to about 6,000 ft (1,800 m) support a forest that includes one of the principal lumber trees, the ohia; found with it are treelike ferns.
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April 22, 2008 at 8:31 am ohia zippycat! where u ben? ben missing u. glad to c u back online agin
u have selected - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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March 22, 2008 at 2:17 pm ohia billy, eye wont hold the scotch, it wuld be berry messie. eye jus leave it in bottle. heres ur water.
keep friends close, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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March 19, 2008 at 2:08 pm ohia bubbashoomin. glad to c u back
prehistoric trilobites - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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July 7, 2008 at 2:01 pm ohia … ai has a nice pikshur of a erlenmeyer flask. ai might swap it in sum time. but ai like the wolf himz bean an Abyssinian wolf, a painting by teh great artiste Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
I cannot brain today - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Woody trailers, harsh hard grass in tufts, the Asplenium trichomanes in rifts, the Pellea ternifolia in sand, and some ohia and mamane scrub in hollow places sheltered from the wind, all hard, crisp, unlovely growths, contrast with the lavish greenery below.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Finding eyesight useless, I dismounted often, and felt with my finger along the rolling lava for the slightest marks of abrasion, which might show that shod animals had passed that way, got up into an ohia to look out for the smoke of
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Under thick canopies of the glossy breadfruit and banana, groups of natives were twining garlands of roses and ohia blossoms.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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