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noun
The traditional staple food of Hawaii, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hawaii, uncountable
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noun
A creamy Samoan dessert of ripe bananas mashed with coconut cream.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A small ball made of leaves and fibres, attached to a string.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, countable, uncountable
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noun
A traditional dance performed by Maori women involving the rhythmic swinging of such a ball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand, countable, uncountable
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noun
Alternative form of poee (“Goan flatbread”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of point of interest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Initialism of person of interest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, person
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noun
Initialism of point of impact.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: ballistics, engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, politics, tools, war, weaponry
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noun
Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dish
History
Borrowed from Hawaiian poi.
Borrowed from Māori poi.
