Definition of "kauila" [kauila]

• One of two trees of the buckthorn family, Alphitonia ponderosa and Colubrina oppositifolia. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Of the wood of the kauila, inlaid with shell and ivory and bone with a cleverness that had died out among our artificers a century before."
• "Kapuhiokalaekini, which he chokes with cross-sticks of _kauila_ wood."
• "His power, _mana_, works through a rod of _kauila_ wood, and his object seems to be to change the established order of things, some say for good, others for the worse."