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n. Young stage of nenue, rudder fish.

1. vs., Low, flat, as a reef.

• References:
  • Cf. hāpapa.

2. n., Beans, peas, lentils; the hyacinth bean (Dolichos lablab 🌐), from tropical Asia, a long vine somewhat like the Lima bean and having edible seeds, growing wild in Hawaiʻi.

• Examples:
  • Ka pāpapa maka a me ka pī a me ka pāpapa pāpaʻa (2 Sam. 17.28), beans and lentils and parched pulse.
• Related:
  • Also: pī.
• References:
  • Neal 468.

kikino Bean. Dic., sp. var. See ula pāpapa. Pāpapa haʻa. Bush bean. Pāpapa hihi. String bean. Pāpapa kele. Jelly bean. Pāpapa koiū. Soybean, soya bean. Pāpapa laima. Lima bean. Pāpapa loloa. Long bean, a common Filipino dish. Pāpapa munukō. Mung bean. Pāpapa poepoe. Pea. Pāpapa ʻūhinihone. Honey locust bean.

s. A kind of food; beans, from the flat pods; also applied to purslain.

adj. Low; broken down; flat and smooth, as the smooth surface of lava.

Low; broken; flat and smooth, as the smooth surface of lava.

A kind of; food; beans, so called from the flat pods; also purslane.