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pokipoki

/ poki.poki / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n., A parasitic isopod found clinging to the skin, gills, fins, mouths, and tails of fish.

2. n., A gray hard-shelled box crab (Calappa hepatica 🌐), not liked as food.

3. n., Sow bug, pill bug (Isopoda 🌐).

4. Reduplication of poki #1.

  • References:
    • PCP potipoti.

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kikino, Sow bug.

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s. A species of the oniscus, an animal which lives in the mouth of the flying-fish, or attaches itself to the side of the fish; he wahi ano ia ma ka moana, a ma ka ae kai, a ma ka aina.

v. See POKI. To stand thickly together, as people in a crowd; to sit close together; to be multitudinous.

Pokipoki (pō'-kĭ-pō'-ki), n.

/ pō'-kĭ-pō'-ki / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. A species of oniscus, a crustacean which lives in the mouth of the flyingfish, or attaches itself to the side of the fish; he wahi ano ia ma ka moana, a ma ka ae kai, a me ka aina.

2. Sow bugs.

Pokipoki (pō'-kĭ-pō'-ki), v.

/ pō'-kĭ-pō'-ki / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

To stand thickly together, as people in a crowd; to sit close together; to be multitudinous.

Sow bug, pill bug (order Isopoda). Introduced.

Hard-shell, gray box-crab (Calappa hepatica), not preferred for eating.

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