kukuin.
/kuːˈkuːi/ An evergreen tree, Aleurites moluccana, of the family Euphorbiaceæ, native to the Moluccas and south Pacific islands; its large seeds yield an oil used for lighting and other purposes, and the tree is also called the candlenut or candleberry tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding oil > Asian > tung or candlenut tree or bean
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1825 W. Ellis Jrnl. Tour Hawaii vii. 167 Along the narrow and verdant border of the lake at the bottom, the bread-fruit, the kukui, and the ohia trees, appeared.
1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 98 These trees were principally of two kinds—the koa and the kukui—the one with a very light green leaf and the other with a dark green.
1890 Ibis 2 175 The delicately-indented foliage of the kukui has..a lovely silvery appearance in certain lights.
1913 J. F. Rock Indigenous Trees Hawaiian Islands 257 The Kukui is one of the most common of Hawaiian forest trees... The nuts contain 50 per cent of oil, which is known as Kekuna in India and Ceylon, and Kukui in Hawaii.
1937 D. Teilhet & H. Teilhet Feather Cloak Murders viii. 143 Silvery Kukui trees draped their clustered pink flowers over old walls.
1967 Economist 9 Sept. 892/1 The luau lights outside nearly every [Hawaii] hotel and restaurant may now consist of concealed gas jet instead of kukui nut-meat burning gently in a shell.
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