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1. nvs., Thick; piled one on top of the other, as leis, mats, or ocean swells; heaped; lush, thick-growing; much traveled, as a road; multitude, as of people, mass.

• Examples:
  • Moena kumu nuʻa, a sleeping mat made thick at one end to serve as a head rest; literally, mat piled beginning.
  • Nuʻa moena, a heap of mats.
  • Nuʻa kanaka, many people.
  • Haki nuʻa ka uahi i ke kai, the spray breaks in masses in the sea.
  • Ka nuʻa o ka palai, the thick clump of palai ferns.
• Related:
  • Also: hānuʻa.
  • hoʻonuʻa Caus/sim.; To heap up; to give generously and continuously; to indulge, as a child; surging, rising in swells, as the sea.

2. n., A kind of seaweed.

Heap of mats, perhaps eight or ten, piled one on top of another.

Road much traveled; mats and leis stacked in thick piles; surging, rising in swells, as the ocean.