Definition of "limu" [‖Li•mu]

• Hawaiian algae, an important part of the ancient Hawaiian diet (noun)

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• "In Hawaii, the native tradition of eating seaweed, called limu, has melded with the diets of Asian immigrants."
• "And behold, everything was got, from the choicest of royal taro to sugar-cane joints for the roasting, from opihis to limu, from fowl to wild pig and poi-fed puppies — everything save one thing."
• "The hands of both of them, little altered or defaced by age, were wonderful in their slender, tapering finger-tips, love-lomied and love-formed while they were babies by old Hawaiian women like to the one even then eating poi and iamaka and limu in the house."