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s. The name of a bush or tree.
2. Red pepper, a species with small round pods.
3. The name of a poison tree which is said to have grown on Lanai and Molokai and whose touch was fatal; it was fabled to have been entered by the god Kalaipaihoa o Kahuilaokalani, and thence became a poison tree and was worshiped as a god. See the kaao.