hau tree

American  

[hou tree] / ˈhaʊ ˌtri /

noun

1. a clambering tree, Hibiscus tileaceus, of tropical shores, having leathery, ovate leaves and yellow flowers that turn dark red as they fade, and yielding a fiber used as cordage.

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Etymology

Origin of hau tree

First recorded in 1840–45; from Hawaiian hau “hau tree” + tree

Example Sentences

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hau tree

Percival Ford looked at the Kanaka half-breed who played under the hau tree, and it seemed, as by some illumination, that he was gazing on a wraith of himself. 

From The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London

She was cutting the many sections or nut-envelopes of the fruit into fluted bell-shapes preparatory to stringing them on the twisted and tough inner bark of the hau tree.

From On the Makaloa Mat by Jack London

The sign of the shallow sea kapu was the placing of branches of the hau tree all along the shore.

From Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Thrum

They made a rope of the hau tree bark.

From Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian by W. D. (William Drake) Westervelt

The doctor laughed at it heartily, as a joke on himself, and glanced at the musicians under the hau tree.

From The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London