Meaning of kukui | Babel Free

Definitions

Aleurites moluccana, the candlenut tree.

Hawaii

Examples

“Though I'd often eaten sashimi, poke was then completely new to me—delicious rubies of cubed fish⟳ dressed in light⟳ sesame oil, garnished with minced bits of reddish-brown seaweed and the ground centers of kukui nuts (see⟳ recipe, next page).”

““We get⟳ so wrapped up in the lei thing,” Ms. Shibata said, noting that instead of that perishable adornment, children will create⟳ bracelets of nuts from the kukui, the Hawaiian state tree.”

“Passing through a grove of kukui trees, with their silver-gray leaves, and then through a valley, they would have⟳ reached sugarcane fields, their stalks as tall as a man and densely clumped together.”

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