purau
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purau (plural puraus)
- A Polynesian shrub or small tree, Hibiscus tiliaceus, having yellow flowers and a fibrous bark. [from 18th c.]
- 1790, William Bligh, A Narrative of the Mutiny:
- The trees that came within our knowledge were the manchineal and a species of purow […] .
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osborne, The Wrecker, Prologue 2:
- In the whole length of the single shoreside street, with […] its grateful shade of palms and green jungle of puraos, no moving figure could be seen.
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purau