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1. n., The breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis 🌐), a tree perhaps originating in Malaysia and distributed through tropical Asia and Polynesia. It belongs to the fig family, and is grown for its edible fruits, sometimes for ornament. The leaves are large, oblong, more or less lobed; fruits are round or oblong, weighing up to 4.5 kilos, when cooked tasting something like sweet potatoes.

  • Examples:
    • ʻUlu hua i ka hāpapa, breadfruit that bears fruit on the flats [of the famous Niʻihau breadfruit growing in the sand dunes].
  • References:
    • Neal 302–4.
    • See ex., pakī, and saying ule #1.
    • PPN kulu.

2. n., Round, smooth stone as used in ʻulu maika game; bowling ball; bell clapper; dice.

  • Examples:
    • Ka iki ʻulu kēia o Kanēkina e kōkē ai nā pine, a small [fellow] is this bowling ball of Kanēkina that knocks down the pins [boast of a small fellow who can do much].

3. n., Muscles in calf of leg.

4. n., Name for konāne stone.

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Stone used in the lulu maika game. This stone is called olohū on Maui and Oʻahu.

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altitis). An attractive tropical tree that ranges to 60 feet in height. The leaves and inner bark are used for dyes. (NEAL 302.) See Plants: Uses.

Cooked, unpounded breadfruit.

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis). All parts of the tree give a milky sap used alone or in a mixture with other plants to give relief for skin diseases, cuts, scaly skin, or mouth sores. (BHK; NEAL 302.)

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis). Early Polynesians brought the breadfruit tree from Tahiti, an attractive tropical tree 30 to 60 feet in height. Its ripe fruit is brownish in tone, 5 to 8 inches in diameter, and weighs up to 10 pounds. It has a sweet, mealy pulp somewhat like the sweet potato. (NEAL 302.)

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis). (NEAL 302.) See Plants: Uses.

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis). Early migrations of Polynesians brought the first breadfruit trees from Tahiti. Rather common in Hawaiʻi, the tree ranges from 30 to 60 feet in height. It has many uses: the wood is light and good for canoes; the smooth, gray bark is fibrous and one source of kapa; the milky sap was used for filling seams of canoes, as a lime for catching birds, and as a chewing gum; fruit is baked or boiled to make its sweet, starchy pulp edible; poi is made by pounding up this pulp. (NEAL 302.)

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