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pili.pili.ʻula

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert,

n. A close blood relationship to one of high rank; this was said by persons entering the hale nauā, desirous of asserting their royal blood. (Malo 199, Emerson note.) Lit., red relationship [red was a sacred color].

pili.piliʻula

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert,

Same as mānienie ʻula, a grass; also Desmodium uncinatum on Niʻihau.

PI-LI-PI-LI-U-LA

Haw to Eng, Andrews,

s. Pilipili (see PILI,) and ula, red. A species of small, low bearded grass, the beards of which adhere tightly to the dress of one walking through it. See MANIANIAULA.

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