English

Noun

akule ‎(plural akule)

1. (Hawaii) The bigeye scad, Selar crumenophthalmus.
   • 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.