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noun
A bushy small tree, Dodonaea viscosa, native to Hawaii, Australia, Africa, and tropical America, having sticky leaves and dark wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a small Hawaiian tree with hard dark wood
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tree
History
From Hawaiian ʻaʻaliʻi (“name of any of the hardwood shrubs of the genus Dodonaea”).
Across languages
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
