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1. n., Short for honohono kukui.

• References:
  • PPN hongohongo .

2. n., The wandering Jew or dayflower (Commelina diffusa 🌐), known in many temperate and tropical countries, a creeping weed, rooting at the joints, and bearing grasslike, ovate leaves and small bright-blue flowers.

• Related:
  • Also: honohono wai, and mākolokolo.
• References:
  • Neal 185.
  • Cf. honohono ʻula.

3. n., A very rare native mint (Haplostachys haplostachya 🌐), a downy erect herb with oblong or narrower leaves and white flowers.

• References:
  • Neal 732.

4. See ʻokika honohono.

5. Same as hohono, bad-smelling.

6. n., A children's game; the child locked fingers of two hands and thrust them into the sand, letting the sand out through a small opening.

s. Name of a weed, very thrifty in growth and very hard to kill.

adj. Bad smelling. See HOHONO.

Having an odor or scent. Syn: Hohono.

A species of long decumbent grass (Oplismenus compositus) common in the outskirts and open glades of forests and along water courses.

a weed (Oplismensus compositus). Land section, Wailuku, Maui.

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