1. n., Various Hawaiian species of Priacanthus 🌐, red fishes, sometimes called bigeye.
2. n., A variety of sugar cane named for the fish.
3. n., Same as ʻāheahea (Chenopodium oahuense 🌐).
4. n., A seaweed.
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s., A shrub or small tree resembling pig-weed, sometimes eaten by Hawaiians.
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s., Name of a species of reddish fish. See alalauwa.
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adj., Applied to some fish; a iho aku la i ka paeaea aweoweo. Laieik. 206.
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1. n., A species of shrub (Chenopodium sandwicheum); a variety of herbs of the goosefoot family; the pigweed.
2. n., A species of red fish (Priacanthus cruentatus). The adult is called ʻāweoweo, the young, alalauwa.
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lurid burning. Land section, Ukumehame, Maui.
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Beach park (1.4 acres), surf site, Mokulēʻia, Oʻahu. The park was named for the street that leads to it from Waialua Beach Road. The surf site is off the beach park and is also known as Au Street, Pyramids. Literally, bigeye or scad fish (Priacanthidae family). The streets in this subdivision are named for Hawaiian fish.
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(Priacanthus cruentatus.) This fish is called big-eye among English-speaking peoples. Its young are known as ʻala-lauwā (redfish), a name applied when spectacular schools of them would appear in Honolulu harbor. Such schools were taken as an omen of sickness or death in the royal family. See pāeaea.
Native herb or shrub (Chenopodium oahuense). Also called ʻaheahea, lambsquarters. (NEAL 331.) See Plants: Uses.
Native shrub (Chenopodium oahuense) resembling pigweed, called lambʻs quarters. It is endemic to Hawaiʻi, where it grows in arid or salty soil. The leaves are cooked as a pot herb. Also called ʻaheahea. (NEAL 331.)
This cane was“discovered” during the battle between Kamehameha I and Kīwalaʻō at Moku-ʻōhai. Formerly it was called ʻōhiʻa but since it was eaten by the hungry in the battle its name was changed. Named for the fish ʻāweoaweo (Pricanthus cruentatus) for its stripings and coloration.
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