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pōhuli

/ pō.huli / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

nvi., Sucker, sprout, shoot; to sprout, usually of bananas.

  • Examples:
    • E kanu ai i nā mea kanu maikaʻi, a e pōhuli i nā lālā waina (Isa. 17.10), plant good plants, so that grapevine branches will sprout.
  • References:
    • See Neal 246.

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v. To plant that which has been dug up for transplanting, as a tree, banana, &c.

2. To transplant. See HULI, to set, as a slip in the ground. Isa. 17:10.

s. The sucker, branch or sprout of any vegetable to be transplanted for producing its kind.

2. Anything which is transplanted, as a banana or other vegetable.

Pohuli (pŏ-hū'-li), n.

/ pŏ-hū'-li / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. A sucker, branch or sprout of any vegetable to be transplanted for producing its kind.

2. Any root offspring of a stock, as a banana.

Pohuli (pŏ-hū'-li), v.

/ pŏ-hū'-li / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

To transplant, as a tree.

shoot, sucker.

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