Definitions for lehuas

lehuas le·hu·a

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

Lehuas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in lehuas (aehlsu).

Definitions for lehuas

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 lehuas

Borrowed into English from Hawaiian around 1885-90

Examples for lehuas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for lehuas
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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