1. n., Round-ended bone entering the hip socket.
2. Type of house with thatch purlins separated by a width of three fingers.
3. Same as moa, a native variety of banana.
4. A variety of sweet potato.
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s. Hua, egg, and moa, a fowl. A hen's egg.
2. The name of the round bone that enters the socket of the hip. Kin. 32:25; Anat. 16.
[Hua, egg, and moa, a fowl.]
1. A hen's egg.
2. The round bone that enters the socket of the hip.
3. A species of yellow sweet potato, so called from its resemblance to the yellow part of an egg.
Sweet potato, so called because in size and color the cooked tuber suggests the yellow of a henʻs egg. It is said to have the odor of an egg when raw. An ancient variety. (HP 141.)
hen’s egg.
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