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Webster 1913 Edition
Limu
‖
Li′mu
(lē′moō)
, Noun.
(Bot.)
The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as
Limu Lipoa
, Limu palawai
, etc. Definition 2024
limu
limu
See also: Lìmù
English
Noun
limu (countable and uncountable, plural limus)
- (Hawaii) Any of various kinds of edible algae, which form an important part of the traditional Hawaiian diet.
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2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 158:
- The menu included chicken, roast pig, raw fish, seaweed, which Hawaiians called limu, roasted kukui nuts, and baked dog […].
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2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 158:
Finnish
Noun
limu
- (colloquial) soda, soft drink
Declension
| Inflection of limu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | limu | limut | |
| genitive | limun | limujen | |
| partitive | limua | limuja | |
| illative | limuun | limuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | limu | limut | |
| accusative | nom. | limu | limut |
| gen. | limun | ||
| genitive | limun | limujen | |
| partitive | limua | limuja | |
| inessive | limussa | limuissa | |
| elative | limusta | limuista | |
| illative | limuun | limuihin | |
| adessive | limulla | limuilla | |
| ablative | limulta | limuilta | |
| allative | limulle | limuille | |
| essive | limuna | limuina | |
| translative | limuksi | limuiksi | |
| instructive | — | limuin | |
| abessive | limutta | limuitta | |
| comitative | — | limuineen | |
Synonyms
Anagrams
Hawaiian
Etymology
From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Polynesian *rimu, from Proto-Oceanic *limut, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *limut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limut.
Noun
limu
- moss (plants of the division Bryophyta)