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maile
[ mahy-ley, -lee, mah-ee-ley ]
noun
- a vine, Alyxia olivaeformis, of Hawaii, having small yellowish flowers and fragrant foliage: a traditional lei plant of Hawaii.
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Update: Maile Molin appeared at Women in the World Texas in San Antonio on October 22, 2014.
At this point in my life, the person I turn to for nuts and bolts help is Maile Malloy.
In the arch of each window hung a wreath of maile, a pretty green vine.
In the first of Samuel you shall read of Goliah a Philistine, the weight of whose brigandine or shirt of maile was of 5000.
She was very jealous of Maile, who would often go surf-riding with him.
Maile-lau-lii (Small-leafed-maile), a young woman, who becomes the wife of Maka-ku.
Maile-Pakaha, the younger sister of Maile-lau-lii, who becomes the wife of Puapua-kea.
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