Definition of "lauhala" [lauhala]

• Pandanus tectorius, a tree common in Hawaii, also known as the screwpine. (noun)

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• "Any man of all the men who work for me, feed out of my hand, and let me do their thinking for them -- me, who work harder than any of them, who eats no more than any of them, and who can sleep on no more than one lauhala mat at a time like any of them?"
• "The eyes of all were intently fixed upon the solitary sleeper who lay on his back on a lauhala mat a hundred feet away under the monkey-pod trees."
• "And the giant harpooner was still roaring, his the last sounds in my ear, as I fell back on the lauhala mat, and was to all things for the time as one dead."