akule

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hawaiian [Term?].

Noun

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akule (plural akule)

  1. (Hawaii) The bigeye scad, Selar crumenophthalmus.
    • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 122:
      Residents of the island also told of a school of red akule fish that had been spotted in the waters off the island of Hawai‘i, which traditionally foretold the death of an ali‘i.

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Noun

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akule

  1. allative singular of aku