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ʻē.kaha

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

n.

1. The bird's-nest fern (Asplenium nidus), widespread in the tropics, forming large rosettes and in some forests perching on branches of trees. The fronds are large, entire, sword-shaped. The black midrib is used like the ʻamaʻu fern for decorating pandanus hats. (Neal 21.) Also ʻākaha. This fern is sometimes called ʻēkaha kuahiwi, mountain ʻēkaha, to distinguish it from the mosses or from ʻēkaha kū moana. (PCP ke(e)ta(f,s)a.)

2. A moss growing on rotted trees. Also limu ʻēkaha.

3. Same as ʻēkaha kū moana.

E-KA-HA

Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s. Name of a parasitical plant.

2. Name of a hard kind of bush which grows in the sea.

3. Also the name of a fern-like plant.

Ekaha (ĕ-kă'-hă), n.

/ ĕ-kă'-hă / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. Ferns of the genus Polypodium. Ekaha akole is the species (Polypodium lineare).

2. A species of algae (Gelidium filicinum).

ʻĒkaha

Wahi ｜ Location, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Street, Wilhelmina Rise, Honolulu. (TM.) Lit., bird's-nest fern.

ʻēkaha

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Birdʻs nest fern (Asplenium nidus). In the vernacular it might be termed a tree fern for its usual perch is as a large dark green rosette of fronds on tree trunks and branches. Many native species of Asplenium grow wild in Hawaiʻi. (NEAL 21.) See Plants: Uses.

ʻēkaha

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Two plants, one a green-colored seaweed (Pterocladia caerulesceus); the other, a land plant, the birdʻs nest fern (Asplenium nidis). Both are very similar except in size. Each has a segment of five “leaves” attached to a stem, each having the shape of long oblong fronds. The seaweed is tiny in contrast to the fern. But both wave their fronds similarly in their respective environments of seawater currents or free air movements. It can be said that the keen-eyed natives saw in the birdʻs nest fern frond the same shape and waving actions they had always seen in the seaweed ʻēkaha; hence, the name. And hence perhaps, the first pairing of a sea plant and a land plant as described in the Hawaiian Hymn of Creation in the Kumulipo. (KL.)

ʻēkaha

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Moss that grows on rotted trees. Also called limu ʻēkaha.

ʻēkaha

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Birdʻs nest fern (Asplenium nidus). (NEAL 21.) See Plants: Uses.

ʻēkaha

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Birdʻs-nest fern (Asplenium nidus), which perches, as a large, dark-green rosette of fronds, on tree trunks and branches. The dark, shining outer layer of the midrib has long been used by Hawaiians to decorate small mats and other plaited hala. In the old ceremony of cutting a tree for a canoe, it was necessary to cover the stump with a birdʻs-nest fern before the trunk could be adzed. (NEAL 21.)

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