n., A native shrub (Touchardia latifolia 🌐), with large, ovate, fine-toothed leaves, related to the māmaki. Formerly the bark was valued highly as the source of a strong, durable fiber for fishing nets, for nets (kōkō) to carry containers, and as a base for ti-leaf raincoats and feather capes.
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s. A shrub, the bark of which dressed resembles bleached hemp or flax, and is made into small cords.
2. The name of the cord itself; hence,
3. Flax; hemp; linen. Puk. 9:31.
4. A cord; tendon of a muscle of animals or men. Kol. 2:19. A muscle. Sol. 3:8. Olona hao, an iron sinew. Isa. 48:4. The hamstring of an animal. Kin. 32:32. In surgery, a ligament. Anat. 1:24.
adj. Flaxen; pertaining to linen. Ier. 13:1. Ka lole olona maikai; he ie nani olona; ua aahuia i ka lole olona aiai keokeo. Hoik. 15:6.
Flaxen; pertaining to linen: ka lole olona maikai; he ie nani olona; ua aahuia i ka lole olona aiai keokeo.
1. A shrub (Touchardia latifolia), 4 to 8 feet high which yields a fiber highly prized for tenacity and durability, and was used chiefly for making fishing nets.
2. The cord itself; hence,
3. Flax; hemp; linen.
4. A cord; tendon of a muscle of animals or men; the hamstring of an animal; in surgery, a ligament; a muscle: olona hao, an iron sinew.
Lane, Lanakila section, Honolulu, Oʻahu, named for a native shrub from which cord was made.
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Forest shrub (Touchardia latifolia). Bark used for cordage. “Best cordage of all in Hawaiʻi.” (RA.)
Ligament, muscle, sinew, tendon, hamstring. (Kol. 2:19.)
Native shrub (Touchardia latifolia). (NEAL 319.) See Plants: Uses.
Native shrub (Touchardia latifolia) related to the māmaki in the nettle family. Six-foot strips of bark were soaked in water for many days, the long fibers removed, bleached in the sun, and then braided into cord, rope, or even cable in a desired diameter. This was the famous olonā—strong, long wearing, no kinks. It was used for binding needs, fishnets, container nets, as a woven base for feather capes and helmets and ti-leaf coats, as rope for rigging on ships and cable to move canoes. Even the fiber thread was used to sew body incisions after embalming. Another use was in a swinging bed of sennit mesh, ʻahamaka (hammock). (NEAL 319.)
I. he wahi mea ulu ma kela aina keia aina, aole paha like loa me ka olona Hawaii, a ua like iki nae, Ios. 2:6; Sol. 31:13. Ua oleloia mai ka olona e Mose ma Aigupita, Puk. 9:31. Ua kaulana no ka olona mai Aigupita mai, no ka maikai, he makalii loa kekahi i loaa malaila. E nana PULUPULU. O ka lole olona kekahi lole maikai i oleloia ma ka Baibala, Lun. 15:11; Ez. 44: 17, 18; oia kekahi kapa o na kahuna. Puk. 28:42; 39:28, o Davida no hoi, 2 Sam. 6:14; 2 Oihlii. 5:12. O ka lole olona maikai, a keokeo, he hoailona ia o ko ka poe haipule pono, Hoik. 15:6; 19:8.
fibrous shrub, cord.
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