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plural lauhalas
Pandanus tectorius, a tree common in Hawaii, also known as the screwpine. quotations examples
Now and then a gaudy peacock would run from his shelter in the lauhala trees, but no wild boars came out, so we returned from our raid bloodless and spoilless.
1892, Rev. Herbert Henry Gowen, The Paradise of the Pacific, page 129