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1. n., Water-soluble colloidal ocherous earth, used for coloring salt, for medicine, for dye, and formally in the purification ceremony called hiʻuwai; any red coloring matter; according to Dr. Frank Tabrah (Kam. 76:149), brick-red soil containing hematite.

• Examples:
  • Ua ʻalaea (For. 4:399), red rain [red of the rainbow].
• References:
  • See ʻiʻo ʻalaea, kuhi ʻalaea.
  • PCP kalaea.

2. n., Flesh-like redness, especially the dark red meat close to the spine of some fish, as of the aku.

3. n., Annatto dye plant (Bixa orellana 🌐), a tropical American shrub or small tree, bearing fruit with scarlet seeds, used for dyeing.

• Related:
  • Sometimes called ʻalaea lāʻau to distinguish from the earth; locally also called lipstick plant.
  • Also: kūmauna.
• References:
  • Neal 589.

4. n., Tribe or clan; people in a district who have intermarried.

5. n., Bad breath, halitosis.

6. n., Fore part of thigh; long narrow thigh muscle.

• References:
  • And.

kikino, Tribe, i.e. people in a district who have intermarried, specifically referring to Hawaiʻi.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word
• References:
  • Cf. hapū, nāki.

Lipstick plant (Bixa orellana), the arnatto dye plant, is called ʻalaea because it resembles yellow or red earth. The scar-let covering of the nearly globose seed capsule yields a bright yellow, almost tasteless, dye used to color butter, margarine, and cheese. The common name, lipstick plant, attests another wide and popular use of the red seed covering. Fiber from its bark is used for cordage, and its stems for an Arabic, gum-like substance in South America, etc. (NEAL 589.) A post-Cook introduction.

Any red coloring matter; red ochre used for dye. (Isa. 14:13.)

Annatto dye plant (Bixa orellana). (NEAL 589.) See Plants: Uses.

Annotto dye plant (Bixa orellana), an evergreen shrub. The scarlet to orange seed coat was used to color butter, cheese, candy, cloth, soap, and paint. Its bark supplied a fiber for cord- age, the stems a gum like gum Arabic. Also known as the lip- stick plant. (NEAL 589)

Clan; descendants of servants; tribe; people in a district who have intermarried.

Water-soluble dirt or clay, a red ochre. Kuʻi ʻalaea, priests who used this colored earth to mark land limits. Due to the presence of iron oxide, it was used as pigmentation in salt, medicine, and dye.

Red ochre used by a class of priests of Lono to mark the boundaries of land. See kuhi ʻalaea.