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kaunaʻoa

/ kauna.ʻoa / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n., A native dodder (Cuscuta sandwichiana 🌐), belonging to the morning-glory family, a leafless, parasitic vine, growing densely on other plants. The numerous, slender, orange stems are used for orange leis to represent the island of Lānaʻi, as designated by the Territorial legislature in 1923.

  • Examples:
    • Hihi kaunaʻoa, hihi Mānā, aloha wale ia lāʻau kumu ʻole (saying), tangled parasite vine, tangled Mānā, pity for this vine without a trunk [of parasites or helpless folk].
  • References:
    • Neal 710–1.

2. n., A mollusk (Vermetidae 🌐).

  • Related:
    • Also: kaunoʻa.
    • In adult stage it becomes solidly fixed to rocks; cuts resulting from stepping on it are considered deadly poisonous by Hawaiians. The mollusk was believed somehow related to the dodder. Also: kio, unaʻoa.

3. n., A coarse, tough seaweed (Galaxaura rugosa), calcified and inedible, resembling kaunaʻoa #1 in being yellow to gold in color.

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Kaunaoa (kā'u-nā'-ō'a), n.

/ kā'u-nā'-ō'a / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

A species of poisonous coral.

Kaunaʻoa

Wahi ｜ Location, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),

Beach and point near Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Pua-kō qd., Hawaiʻi. Lit., native dodder or a mollusk.

kaunaʻoa

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Native Hawaiian dodder (Cuscuta sandwichiana). Grows on roadsides and in uncultivated fields. It is a parasite. Plants are used as orange leis, and they represent Lanaʻi in the “Song of the Islands:” In old literature it is called the “motherless plant:” (NEAL 710.)

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