Etymology

wiliwili

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Today it means: A fabaceous flowering tree of species Erythrina sandwicensis, endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Full definition →

Hawaiian wiliwili
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  1. Hawaiian · borrowed fromwiliwili
  2. English todaywiliwili

From Hawaiian wiliwili (literally “repeatedly twisted”), in reference to the dehiscing seed pods.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.