Etymology

po'ouli

Today it means: Melamprosops phaeosoma, the black-faced honeycreeper, endemic to Hawaii, declared extinct in 2021. Full definition →

Hawaiian poʻo-uli
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  1. Hawaiian · borrowed frompoʻo-uli
  2. English todaypo'ouli

From Hawaiian poʻo-uli (literally “black-head”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.