maile

American  

[mahy-lay, -lee, mah-ee-lay] / ˈmaɪ leɪ, -li, ˈmɑ iˌleɪ /

noun

1. a vine, Alyxia olivaeformis, of Hawaii, having small yellowish flowers and fragrant foliage: a traditional lei plant of Hawaii.

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Etymology

Origin of maile

Borrowed into English from Hawaiian around 1905–10

Example Sentences

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maile

After the hearing, Berry said the lei was made from the maile plant and shipped from Hawaii for Akaka.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2012

Ia manawa, kaili mai la ka mea ume i ka maile a kau aku la maluna o Hinaikamalama, a ku mai la.

From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Martha Warren Beckwith

Here coom'th Maister Jan Ridd," said the landlady, being well pleased with the call for beer and cider: "her hath been to Lunnon-town, and live within a maile of me.

From Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The Castellanes for the most part did weare very bad and rustie shirts of maile, and all of them head peeces and steele cappes, and very bad lances.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt

Sometimes they consist of the bright yellow ilimu-flowers or brilliant scarlet pomegranate-blossoms strung on a fibre of the banana-stalk—sometimes they are woven of ferns or of a fragrant wild vine called maile.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various