fein.
A type of plantain, Musa fehi, native of Tahiti and New Caledonia.
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1829 W. Ellis Polynesian Res. I. xiii. 374 In several of these islands, the fei is the principal support of the inhabitants. The plantain is a fruit that is always acceptable.
1894 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Ebb-tide i. ii Five Kanakas..were squatted round a basin of fried feis.
1926 Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 12 156 The Fe 'i are of the greatest interest ethnobotanically.
1959 N. B. Tindale & H. A. Lindsay Rangatira i. 13 The big red-gold fei plantains grew sparsely on the slopes of the central mountain.
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