Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of two trees of the buckthorn family, Alphitonia ponderosa and Colubrina oppositifolia.
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Examples
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Of the wood of the kauila, inlaid with shell and ivory and bone with a cleverness that had died out among our artificers a century before.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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Of the wood of the kauila, inlaid with shell and ivory and bone with a cleverness that had died out among our artificers a century before.
Shin-Bones 1919
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Kapuhiokalaekini, which he chokes with cross-sticks of _kauila_ wood.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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His power, _mana_, works through a rod of _kauila_ wood, and his object seems to be to change the established order of things, some say for good, others for the worse.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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His son Kila journeys thither to fetch his older brother, and finds it "grand, majestic, lofty, thatched with the feathers of birds, battened with bird bones, timbered with _kauila_ wood."
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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Kila goes to his father's house, Moaulanuiakea, thatched with birds 'feathers, and built of _kauila_ wood.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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The woods used were naio, kauila and uhiuhi, as well as lama -- none of which are easy to find anymore.
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The woods used were naio, kauila and uhiuhi, as well as lama -- none of which are easy to find anymore.
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