akule

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian [Term?]

Noun

akule (plural akule)

  1. (Hawaii) The bigeye scad, Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template..
    • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 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.