n. Hawaiian duck (Anas wyvilliana). Also koloa maoli, native koloa, to distinguish it from migratory or introduced ducks, also called koloa. Formerly on all main islands except Lā-naʻi and Ka-hoʻolawe; in 1976 common only on Kauaʻi; birds raised in capitivity and released have been seen on Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi; considered endangered in 1978. Koloa birds protected a legendary blind giant, Ima-i-ka-lani, and quacked to warn him from which side he might expect an attack (FS 169). (PPN toloa.)
1. n. Long cane with a crook.
2. vi. To make a prolonged sound, roar. ʻO Puna ia o ke kai kōloa i ka ulu hala, this is Puna where the sea ever roars in the pandanus groves.
v. To pull; to drag along. See KOKO and KAUO.
s. A duck; specifically, a muscovy duck.
2. Literally, long cane. This fact of long cane is said to have given a name to a district on Kauai.
A duck; specifically, a muscovy duck.
2. [Literally, long cane.] Name of a long cane fashioned like a shepherd's crook and used as a weapon to assail or defend. This long cane is said to have given a name to a district on Kauai.
A district on the island of Kauai.
wild duck. Village. Kauai.
Street, Kāhala, Honolulu. Lit., native duck.
Beach at Puna-luʻu, Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi, where birth stones (ʻiliʻili hānau) were said to reproduce. Town, park, land division, elementary school, district, reservoir, landing, and stream, southeast Kauaʻi. (For. Sel. 108.) According to one account, the district was named for a steep rock called Pali-o-kō-loa. The first successful sugar plantation in the Islands was started here in 1835. It became a part of Grove Farm in 1948. See Waitā.
Beach, Punaluʻu, Hawaiʻi. Pebble or ʻiliʻili beach between Punaluʻu and Nīnole where birth pebbles are said to occur. Traditional stories say that the pebbles, or ʻiliʻili hānau, reproduce themselves and give birth to smaller pebbles. Lit., long [grass] cane, or to roar.
Hawaiian duck (Anas wyvilliana). Indigenous to all the main Hawaiian islands, inhabiting coastal lagoons, marshes, ponds, and mountain streams. Facing extinction, it has recently been reared in captivity and successfully released on Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi. The native nonmigratory duck is called koloa maoli.
Long cane. Lit., cane long, the reason why a district in Kauaʻi is so named. No other data. (A.)
wild duck.
E huli iā “kōloa” ma Ulukau.
Search for “kōloa” on Ulukau.