n. A favorite and common native variety of banana, eaten raw or cooked. The fruit bunches are small, the skin thin, ripening yellow, the flesh salmonpink. (HP 115). This was one of the few bananas permitted women. Also hilahila. Lit., yellow core.
s. A species of banana which were permitted to be eaten under the kapu system; eia na maia a Papa e ai ai, o ka popolu, o ka iholena.
A variety of the banana (Musa sapientum), having light green leaves and stems of light green with black streaks: formerly permitted to be eaten under the tabu system: Eia na maia a Papa e ai ai, o ka popoulu, o ka iholena.
Street and place, lower ʻĀlewa Heights, Honolulu, named for a kind of banana.
Species of banana permitted to be eaten under the kapu system. See hilahila, pōpōhe.
E huli iā “iholena” ma Ulukau.
Search for “iholena” on Ulukau.