n.
1. A vine (Stictocardia tiliaefolia) in the morning-glory family, native from India eastward, possibly into Polynesia, long known in Hawaiʻi, as on roadsides and rocky shores. Flowers are funnel-shaped, rose-purple, about 5.1 cm in diameter, the leaves heartshaped. (Neal 702.)
2. The wood rose (Merremia tuberosa), another kind of morning-glory, with deep yellow flowers and five-to seven-lobed leaves, grown ornamentally in Hawaiʻi for its dry, brown, rose-shaped fruit. (Neal 709.)
s. A kind of medicine consisting of some kind of seeds, one handful, beaten up and sifted and taken as a purgative.
2. The name of a shrub, the seeds of which are used for medicinal purposes, especially to children as a cathartic.
3. A kind of berry growing near the sea shore.
1. A plant creeper (Argyreia tiliaefolia), found only along rocky shores.
2. The berry of the pilikai which is used as medicine.
Street, ʻĀina-Haina, Honolulu, named for a medicinal plant. (TM.)
Shore.
E huli iā “pilikai” ma Ulukau.
Search for “pilikai” on Ulukau.