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English
Noun
hapuʻu (plural hapuʻu)
- Alternative form of hapu'u
1997, James D. Houston, In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey, San Francisco, Calif.: Mercury House, →ISBN, page 121:Over the small ferns, the high and pale-green hapuʻu arch twenty-five and thirty feet.
1999, “Affected Environment, Environmental Consequences, and Mitigation Measures”, in Saddle Road (State Route 200), Mamalahoa Highway (State Route 190) to Milepost 6, County of Hawaiʻi, State of Hawaiʻi, FHWA Project No. A-AD-6(1): Final Environmental Impact Statement, U.S. Department of Transportation and Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, page 3-119:The understory includes hapuʻu and various native small trees, shrubs and ferns.
2020, Michelle Clark, Mari K Reeves, Fred Amidon, Stephen E Miller, “Hawaiian Islands Wet Forest”, in Michael I. Goldstein, Dominick A. DellaSala, editors, Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes, volume 3, Elsevier, page 329:On the island of Hawaiʻi a layer composed almost entirely of hapuʻu is present, this occurs on other islands as well but to a lesser extent.