1. vi. To wilt, as a plant; warm, insipid.
2. n. A native shrub (Chenopodium oahuense) and air introduced weedy herb (C. album), both with narrow to triangular or rhomboidal, thickish leaves; flowers small, in panicles. Young plants, leaves, and plant tips are used for greens, wrapped in ti leaves and cooked on hot coals. Also ʻahea, ʻāhewahewa, alaweo; alaweo huna (Niʻihau), ʻāweoweo. (Neal 331.)
3. Var. name for pakai 2.
4. Same as heahea, to call.
adj., Warm, as water by standing in the sun.
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1. A common plant that was cooked and eaten like luau (taro tops). It was used as a poultice after being heated. Syn.: Ahea.
Member of the goosefoot family (Chenopodium oahuense), known as lambsʻ-quarters. The young plants are used as greens. (NEAL 331.) This plant does not have a particularly agreeable odor.
Warm, as water from standing in the sun; to wilt, as a plant.
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