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aalii

[ah-lee-ee]

aa·li·i

[ah-lee-ee]
noun
a bushy shrub, Dodonaea viscosa, of Australia, Hawaii, Africa, and tropical America, having sticky foliage.

Origin:
< Hawaiian ʿaʿaliʿi
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Aalii is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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aalii (ɑːˈliːiː)
 
n
a bushy sapindaceous shrub, Dodonaea viscosa, of Australia, Hawaii, Africa, and tropical America, having small greenish flowers and sticky foliage
 
[Hawaiian]

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