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ohia

n. Either of two flowering trees of the myrtle family, especially as found in Hawaii: the (vern lehua pedia=1), (taxlink Metrosideros polymorpha species noshow=1) (native to Hawaii), and the Malay apple, (taxlink Syzygium malaccense species noshow=1), (native to Southeast Asia, introduced throughout the tropics).

Usage examples of "ohia".

It turned out to be true to its name--a wooden walkway winding through a desolate forest of skeletal ohia trees, the native Hawaiian trees that provided the magical lehua blossoms she had read about.

According to legend, the tree and the flower represented the lovers Ohia and Lehua.

Taking pity on her, they turned her into the lehua blossom attached to the ohia tree.

The spindly gray ohia trees along the sides of the road had not seemed so leering or so menacing before, not even when she saw them as only skeletal remains on Devastation Trail.

These were native koa and ohia trees in what looked like an area designed to produce firewood for stoves and fireplaces.

The sight of red mountain apples, the ohias, familiar to us from Hawaii, caused a native to be sent climbing after them.

Paths wound gently among ohia and jacaranda, coral and rainbow shower trees, with more ferns underfoot than Nicole could name.