Huluwaena — meaning and pronunciation
Pronounced /HOO-loo-wah-EH-nah/ — syllables: HOO · loo · wah · EH · nah
Meaning
A delicate endemic moss (Macromitrium spp.) often found growing on trees or rocks.
How to pronounce Huluwaena
Hawaiian vowels are always sounded separately. A kahakō (line above a vowel) lengthens it; the ʻokina (ʻ) is a glottal stop, like the pause in “uh-oh”.
Frequently asked
What does Huluwaena mean?
A delicate endemic moss (Macromitrium spp.) often found growing on trees or rocks.
How do you pronounce Huluwaena?
Huluwaena is pronounced /HOO-loo-wah-EH-nah/ — broken into syllables: HOO · loo · wah · EH · nah. Each vowel in Hawaiian is sounded separately, and the ʻokina (ʻ) is a glottal stop, like the pause in "uh-oh".
Is Huluwaena a noun?
Yes — Huluwaena is classified as a noun in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, within the Plants category.
Where does this definition come from?
Definitions and pronunciations on hawaiian-words.com are drawn from the authoritative Pukui-Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary (rev. ed. 1986), the standard scholarly reference for ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.