Maoli

Quick meaning: Maoli is a noun meaning A species of very tall, dark green-stemmed banana native to Polynesia, having large bunches of long, round fruits with dark-colored flesh.

Meaning

A species of very tall, dark green-stemmed banana native to Polynesia, having large bunches of long, round fruits with dark-colored flesh.

More Meanings

1. Alternative form of Maoli (native Hawaiian)

Example Sentences

This banana resembles the "maoli" in general appearance. Its fruit is shorter and quite large in size.

This is an important cultural difference of interpretation between London as a haole writer and Sheldon as a maoli writer.

Genocide. Flooding the valleys and stripping the limu clean from the rocks Sweeping away the 'opae from the streams the ulu from the land and the maoli from the earth.

[He could choose] light-colored varieties of bananas such as the ha'a, iholena, loha, and lele; or dark-colored varieties such as the maoli, kahtki, puhi, koa'e, malei'ula, 'eke'ula, kaualau, popo'ulu, aulena, and others.

Word Forms

• maolis

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include makaloa, banana, mahoe, maile, mokihana, noni.

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