Definition of "ohelo" [ohelo]

• A small red or yellow berry growing on the shrub (Vaccinium reticulatum) of volcanic parts of the Hawaiian islands of Hawaii and Maui, or the shrub itself. (noun)

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• "Then, as now, ohelo berries grew profusely round the terminal wall of Kilauea, and there, as elsewhere, were sacred to Pele, no one daring to eat of them till he had first offered some of them to the divinity."
• "We left early, and descended the terminal wall, still as before, green with ferns, ohias, and sandalwood, and bright with clusters of turquoise berries, and the red fruit and waxy blossoms of the ohelo."
• "In southern Hawaii Pele was feared more than any other deity, and no one dared to approach her abode without making her an offering of the ohelo-berries that grow in the neighborhood."