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ʻalaea

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n., Water-soluble colloidal ocherous earth, used for coloring salt, for medicine, for dye, and formally in the purification ceremony called hiʻuwai; any red coloring matter; according to Dr. Frank Tabrah (Kam. 76:149), brick-red soil containing hematite.

2. n., Flesh-like redness, especially the dark red meat close to the spine of some fish, as of the aku.

3. n., Annatto dye plant (Bixa orellana 🌐), a tropical American shrub or small tree, bearing fruit with scarlet seeds, used for dyeing.

  • Related:
    • Sometimes called ʻalaea lāʻau to distinguish from the earth; locally also called lipstick plant.
    • Also: kūmauna.
  • References:
    • Neal 589.

4. n., Tribe or clan; people in a district who have intermarried.

5. n., Bad breath, halitosis.

6. n., Fore part of thigh; long narrow thigh muscle.

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    • And.

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ʻalaea

kikino ｜ noun Haw to Eng, Māmaka Kaiao,

kikino, Tribe, i.e. people in a district who have intermarried, specifically referring to Hawaiʻi.

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alaea

kikino ｜ noun / A-LA-EA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

1. s., Red dirt; a kind of Spanish brown dug from the earth.

2. Any red coloring matter; red ochre. Isa. 44:13.

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alaea

ʻaʻano ｜ stative verb / A-LA-EA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

adj., Relating to the practice of the priest offering the yearly sacrifice; hele mai ke kahuna alaea me ke kanaka, nana e lawe ka ipu alaea.

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alaea

/ A-LA-EA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

adj., Red, as the flesh of the fish aku and ahi. See foregoing. Huki koke ka io alaea a me na io a pau; name of a muscle. Anat. 50.

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alaea

kikino ｜ noun / A-LA-EA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

s., The fore part of the thigh.

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alaea

kikino ｜ noun / A-LA-EA / Haw to Eng, Andrews (1865),

1. s., A family, tribe or clan.

2. The descendants of servants; the descendants of Keopuolani are the alaea of Nahienaena.

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alaea

kikino ｜ noun / ă'-lă-ĕa' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. n., A red or brown clay used to color the water in the religious ceremony known as hiuwai.

2. n., Red dirt; a kind of Spanish brown coloring matter dug from the earth.

3. n., Any red coloring matter; a dye for tapa; red ochre.

4. n., A group of kindred individuals.

5. n., A family, tribe or clan.

6. n., The descendants of servants: The descendants of Keopuolani are the alaea of Nahienaena. (Obsolete.)

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alaea

kikino ｜ noun / ā'-lă-ĕ'a / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. n., The fore part of the thigh.

2. n., A long, narrow muscle of the thigh; the sartorius muscle.

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alaea

ʻaʻano ｜ stative verb / ā'-lă-ĕa' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

adj., Red; red, resembling flesh, as the fibrous tissues seen in large fish: Huki koke ka ia alaea a me na io a pau.

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alaea

ʻaʻano ｜ stative verb / ā-lă-ĕa' / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

adj., Relative to the ceremony of the hiuwai; relating to the practice of the priest offering the yearly sacrifice. Hele mai ke kahuna alaea me ke kanaka, nana e lawe ka ipu alaea.

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ʻalaea

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Lipstick plant (Bixa orellana), the arnatto dye plant, is called ʻalaea because it resembles yellow or red earth. The scar-let covering of the nearly globose seed capsule yields a bright yellow, almost tasteless, dye used to color butter, margarine, and cheese. The common name, lipstick plant, attests another wide and popular use of the red seed covering. Fiber from its bark is used for cordage, and its stems for an Arabic, gum-like substance in South America, etc. (NEAL 589.) A post-Cook introduction.

ʻalaea

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Any red coloring matter; red ochre used for dye. (Isa. 14:13.)

ālaea

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Forepart of the thigh; long, narrow muscle of the thigh.

ʻalaea

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Annatto dye plant (Bixa orellana). (NEAL 589.) See Plants: Uses.

ʻalaea

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Annotto dye plant (Bixa orellana), an evergreen shrub. The scarlet to orange seed coat was used to color butter, cheese, candy, cloth, soap, and paint. Its bark supplied a fiber for cord- age, the stems a gum like gum Arabic. Also known as the lip- stick plant. (NEAL 589)

ʻalaea

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Clan; descendants of servants; tribe; people in a district who have intermarried.

ʻalaea

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Water-soluble dirt or clay, a red ochre. Kuʻi ʻalaea, priests who used this colored earth to mark land limits. Due to the presence of iron oxide, it was used as pigmentation in salt, medicine, and dye.

ʻalaea

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Red ochre used by a class of priests of Lono to mark the boundaries of land. See kuhi ʻalaea.

‘alaea

Haw to Eng, Judd/Pukui/Stokes (1943),

red ochre.

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