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Huli | Search «laiki»: He 20 i loaʻa | Found 20.

vs., Tight, as a dress; painfully stuffed, as the stomach after overeating; narrow, as a gate opening (contraction of lāʻā, wide, and iki, small).

  • Examples:
    • Lima lāʻiki, long, narrow sleeve.

n., Litchi.

  • Source:
    • English.

Nā Lepili | Tags: flora

kikino, Rice.

  • Source:
    • Existing dictionary word
  • Examples:
    • Laiki keʻokeʻo, lāisi keʻokeʻo (white rice)
    • Laiki mākuʻe, lāisi mākuʻe. Brown rice.
    • Laiki mōchī, lāisi mōchī. Mochi rice.

kikino, Lychee, litchi.

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    • Existing dictionary word

v., To cram; to stuff; to throw together confusedly; to eat too much; to be full, as an over-loaded stomach.

s., Fullness, as of the stomach from over-eating; ua laiki ka opu.

adj., Full, as the stomach from eating too much.

s., Hawaiian orthography for raisi. Eng. Rice; a vegetable; a species of grain.

Nā Lepili | Tags: flora food

n., [Hawaiian orthography for raisi. (Eng.)] Rice; a species of grain.

Nā Lepili | Tags: flora food

1. v., To be tight; to fit too close.

2. v., To be full, as an overloaded stomach; to be oppressed with a sensation of fullness from food or gas.

n., Fullness, as of the stomach from over-eating; ua laiki ka opu.

laiki

ʻaʻano | stative verb / lā'-ī'-ki / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

adj., Full, as the stomach from eating too much.

Place, Kailua, Oʻahu, the site of the country home of Arthur H. Rice built in about 1915. Mr. Rice planted ironwood trees as a windbreak and coconut palms as a copra plantation (some ironwoods and coconuts still remain). When the plantation failed he raised cattle here and at Mōkapu. After his death in the 1950s, his home was demolished and the land subdivided.

  • Literally, Rice.

Nā Lepili | Tags: Oʻahu

Rice.

Rice.

Litchi (Litchi chinensis), an introduced member of the soap-berry family, is a fruit with a hard, scaly covering containing a large hard seed. Flesh is white, watery, transparent, and a popular food item in Hawaiʻi. (NEAL 534.)

Rice (Oryza sativa) (NEAL 69.) See Plants: Uses.

Rice (Oryza sativa), one of six tropical species in the genus of rather tall annual and perennial swamp grasses. It is the chief food of more than half the worldʻs people. Besides food, rice grains provide fermented liquor, a nondrying oil, and a laundry starch. Its straw supplies hats and shoes. (NEAL 69.)

rice.

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