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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An evergreen tree or shrub (Metrosideros polymorpha) of the Hawaiian Islands, having hard wood and showy red flowers with numerous long stamens.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Hawaiian ‘ōhi‘a lehua : ‘ōhi‘a, ohia lehua + lehua, flower of the ohia lehua.]

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