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1. n., Large mackerel type fish (Acanthocybium solandri 🌐), to 1.5 or 1.8 m in length; choice eating.

• Related:
  • Known in Florida and the West Indies as the wahoo.
• References:
  • PPN ʻono .

2. numeral, Six; sixth.

• References:
  • PPN ono .

See pihi wili ono.

1. v., To be or become sweet; to relish, as food; to have a like or relish for sweet food. Kin. 27:4. To have a sweet taste.

2. To be sweet, that is, good to eat; eatable. Kin. 3:6.

3. To desire greatly to taste or eat a thing; ono iho la kekahi mau kanaka i ka ia.

4. To be savory; ua ono, ua mikomiko, na onoono.

5. Morally, to have a relish for virtue.

v., To disrelish food, as a sick child or person without appetite. Hoo. Hooioi, hoono, hoonoono.

s., Sweetness; that which is pleasant to the taste either in eating or drinking; ka ono o ka puu i ka ai ana a i ka inu ana.

adj., Sweet; palatable; relishable; ala ono, a sweet savor. Oihlc. 1:9. He kanaka hua ono oe. Proverb.

s., Name of a very large species of fish, the parents of the opelu; o ke ano makua o ka opelu; computed at one-sixth of the whole.

adj., The ordinal of six; the sixth; used with the article. Gram. 115:4. Aono, eono, six.

1. adj., Six.

2. adj., Used with the article ke: ke ono, the sixth.

3. adj., Sweet; palatable; relishable; ala ono, a sweet savor.

1. n., Sweetness; that which is pleasant to the taste either in eating or drinking: ka ono o ka puu i ka ai ana a i ka inu ana.

2. n., A fish very like a large mackerel, belonging to the genus of petos. (Acanthocybium solandri.) Color, steel blue, dark above, paler below. Said by Hawaiians to be the parent of the opelu.

1. v., To be or become sweet; to relish, as food; to have a like or relish for sweet food. To have a sweet taste.

2. v., To be sweet, that is, good to eat; eatable.

3. v., To desire greatly to taste or eat a thing; ono iho la kekahi mau kanaka i ka ia.

4. v., To be savory; ua ono, ua mikomiko, ua onoono.

5. v., Morally, to have a relish for virtue.

6. v., To long for a particular kind of food after a period of sickness when no food is relished.

Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri). Attains 6 feet in length. Usually taken by trolling, it is a popular food fish.

I. he kulanahale no Beniamina, kokoke i Loda, 1 Oihlii. 8:12; Ezera 2:33. Ua manaoia, o 'ka papu o Ono,' oia ka hapa o ka papu o Sarona kokoke i Ono, Neh. 6:2; 11:35.

(ke) ono six.