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1. nvi., Fruit, tuber, egg, produce, yield, ovum, seed, grain, offspring; meat as in ʻopihi shell or ʻalamihi crab; to bear fruit, tuber or seed; to bear a child; fruitful.

  • Examples:
    • Ā e hana aku ʻoe iā ʻoukou e hua aʻe (Oihk. 26.9), and will make you fruitful.
  • References:
    • PPN fua.

2. n., Round object, as pill or bead.

3. n., Result, effect; credit, as for a university course.

  • Examples:
    • Ka hua o kā ʻoukou hana, the result of your work.

4. n., Testicles.

  • Examples:
    • Ka hele ā pala nā hua i ka moana, testicles rot at sea [a sailor lacks a sex partner].
    • He hua pēpē ʻia (Oihk. 21.20), broken testicles.
  • References:
    • PNP fua.

5. Same as huahua #3, a vulgar gesture.

  • Examples:
    • Hoʻopuʻu ka hua, to make this gesture.

6. nvi., Word, letter, figure, watchword, rallying cry, note in music; winning word in the Chinese gambling game of chee-fah; type; to speak.

  • Examples:
    • Hoʻonoho hua, to set type.
    • Kāne kū i ke kala, kala i ka hua o ka waha (prayer), Kāne stand to forgive, forgive the words of the mouth.
    • Ā hua (For. 5:43), then speak [cf. pane #1].
  • References:

7. (Cap.) n., Name of the thirteenth night of the lunar month.

  • References:
    • Malo 35.
    • PEP (f,s)ua.

8. (Cap.) n., Name of a star.

9. n., The bulging of the broadest part of a paddle blade.

10. See pai hua.

11. See paʻi hua.

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kikino, Corm, as of taro.

  • Source:
    • Traditional.
  • References:

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kikino, Sound segment, in linguistics.

  • Source:
    • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning

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kikino, Gonad, a reproductive gland that produces gametes.

  • Source:
    • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning

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1. n., The twelfth night after the new moon, the thirteenth day of the old Hawaiian month.

2. n., A producing; that which is produced; offspring.

3. n., Effect; that which follows from a cause.

4. n., A watchword; password; rallying cry.

5. n., Testicle; Syn: Opea.

6. n., Modernized, a letter or letters that spell the words of a language.

7. n., Fruit; fruitage.

8. n., Egg; ovum; seed.

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Hill, northwest Kauaʻi. Lit., fruitful.

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