Prince Akuli shot an apprehensive glance sideward to where, under the shade of a kukui tree, an old wahine (Hawaiian woman) was just settling herself to begin on some work in hand.
One of the conspicuous trees of the Hawaiian forests is the Kukui or candle-nut.
Only two thousand pounds of Kukui nuts were exported in 1872.
Fine varieties were even made of the kukui (Aleurites moluccana).
The ripekukui nut was chewed into a paste and mingled with this stain.
Imagine an assembly of men and women in the picturesque illumination given by flaring kukui torches, the men on one side, the women on the other.
He had his residence in the midst of a grove of fine kukui trees, the remnants of which remain to this day.
It is also stained with the juice from the bark of the root of the kukui tree, which imparts a color like that of copper, and makes the Hawaiians class it as pa'ikukui.
The malua-ula was a variety of tapa that was stained with hili kukui (the root-bark of the kukui tree).
The kukui (Aleurites triloba) and the algaroba (Prosopis juliflora) are the principal species of forest trees that occur below elevations of 2000 ft.
The kukui grows along streams and gulches; from its nuts, which are very oily, the natives used to make candles, and it is still frequently called the candlenut tree.
Then anointing himself with a mixture of rancid cocoanut and kukui oil, which gave him a very strong corpse-like odor, he started with his companions in the well-loaded canoes for a point in the sea where the sky comes down to meet the water.
Kaluhe, whose eyes had often been filled with smoke while cooking luau and roasting kukui nuts for him, had not been included in the invitation, and he saw that no provision had been made for him.
This same fellow had the misfortune, one evening, to injure one of his eyes by the explosion of a kukui nut which he was roasting on the fire.
Together they built a little bower out of view from the upper edges of the crater, under the spreading branches of a kukui tree.
They always kept a store of kukui nuts, which they roasted; then breaking up the kernels fine and mixed with salt, they ate it as a relish.
The oilykukui nuts were thrown on the fire, and the whole resources of the Polynesian Black Art were brought into use.
He anointed his body with the kukui oil until it glistened like the polished leaves of trees; then taking his surf-board he went boldly to the tabu surf waters of his sister.
Hiku rubbed his body all over with the rancid kukui oil and then gave the ieie vine into the keeping of his father to hold fast while he made his descent into the world of the spirits of the dead.
She came to the kukui grove and looked all around, seeing nothing, but passing further along she saw a mist rising.
Hiku prepared a cocoanut-shell full of oil made from decayed kukui nuts.
Jumping from the Dakotas to Florida I want to introduce to you the Candle Nut or Kukui nut of the Hawaiian Islands which is growing in the sandy regions of the tropical belt of Florida.
This is a branch of one of these Kukui nuts in Miami.
Simpson is growing in his yard in Florida a tree of this Kukui nut and has eaten these nuts for years, and he just sent me a couple quarts of them from his tree and I have tried them on my friends with no injurious results whatever.
The Kukui tree is easily recognizable from afar off by the pale hue of its foliage, which appears to be dusted over with flour.
We rode through the quiet little village of Waialua, sleeping beneath the shade of giant pride-of-India and kukui trees, without meeting any one, and forded the Waialua River just where it flows over silver sands into the sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kukui" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
