n., A slender, shrubby legume (Tephrosia purpurea 🌐 syn. T. piscatoria), 30 to 60 cm high, with small, compound leaves, small white or purplish flowers, and narrow pods, used for poisoning fish. The plant is known from tropical Asia eastward into Polynesia.
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s., A shrub; the name of a plant used in poisoning or intoxicating fish, that they may be caught. See AUHOLA.
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n., A plant (Tephrosia piscatoria) containing narcotic properties, used by natives for stupefying fish. Also called auhola.
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a plant used in poisoning fish. Land section, Hamakua, Hawaii.
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Point, Kohala qd., Hawaiʻi, named for a small legume with pods used for poisoning fish. The plant grew wild here, and the residents traded it, along with taro, for fish from the coast.
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Poisonous shrub (Tephrosia purpurea) used to stupefy fish in salt water, as ʻākia is used in fresh water. Its pods supply the poison.
Neal lists the three together as a perennial herb with more or less woody stems and slender branches (Tephrosia purpurea). Some distinctions can be suggested: I use ʻauhuhu as the name of the stupefying or poisoning plant. Hola is the name of the method of killing fish by poisoning. ʻAuhola would designate the plant for this specific purpose. (KILO.)
Shrub (Tephrosia purpurea) used to poison or intoxicate fish. Dorothy Kahananui reports that her family used to catch ʻoʻopu by pounding the ʻauhuhu and scattering the leaves in a pool or ditch temporarily closed downstream, to allow catching fish bare handed. (NEAL 448.) See Manners and Customs: ʻauhuhu.
Small, slender shrub (Tephrosia purpurea). (NEAL 448.) See Plants: Uses.
Small, slender shrub (Tephrosia purpurea) used as a poison to catch fish. The plant was pounded up and thrown in the tidal pools causing the affected fish to float to the surface. (NEAL 448.)
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