Related to ehu, rehu and nehu. For sense of pollen, compare with Hawaiian ʻehu and Malay debu (i.e. in debunga from debu bunga “flower dust”) for similar semantic extension.
puehu
- pollen
- (archaic) dust
puehu
- dusty
- mealy, floury
- “puehu” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
