Definitions for lehua

lehua le·hu·a

Spelling: [ley-hoo-ah]
IPA: /leɪˈhu ɑ/

Lehua is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in lehua (aehlu).

Definitions for lehua

noun

  1. Also called ohia lehua. a tree, Metrosideros villosa, of the Hawaiian islands, yielding a hard wood.
  2. the bright-red, corymbose flower of this tree.

Origin of lehua

Borrowed into English from Hawaiian around 1885-90

Examples for lehua

Keola was married with lehua, daughter of Kalamake, the wise man of Molokai, and he kept his dwelling with the father of his wife.

She had the same experience on lehua, on Kiihau, and on the large island of Kauai.

But there was another matter not so clear, and lehua and Keola talked of it all night and were troubled.

It was a good night, though I suspect that lehua Alapai and the Mowbray sisters had at least as much fun as I did.

lehua (verse 6) is the well-known bird-island, lying north of Niihau and visible from the Waimea side of Kauai.

I looked through a screen of banana and lehua trees, and down across the guava scrub to the quiet sea a thousand feet beneath.

Keola and lehua took his advice, and gave many dollars to the lepers and the fund.

Presently after he spied lehua weeping, and was half in a mind to tell her all was well.

Through the sea of green, lofty tree-ferns thrust their great delicate fronds, and the lehua flaunted its scarlet blossoms.

The last leaf was eaten, the flame fell, and the shock followed, and there were Keola and lehua in the room at home.

Word Value for lehua
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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