Definition of "kolea" []

• Hawaiian name for a migrating plover. (noun)

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• "The kolea is a feeder along the shore, his range limited to a narrower strip as the tide rises."
• "At the lower end of the crater was our camping spot, in a small grove of olapa and kolea trees, tucked away in a corner of the crater at the base of walls that rose perpendicularly fifteen hundred feet."
• "There were forests of koa and kolea trees, and candlenut trees; and then there were the trees called ohia-ai, which bore red mountain apples, mellow and juicy and most excellent to eat."