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‖ koa|ˈkəʊə|
[Native Hawaiian name.]
A valuable forest-tree of the Sandwich Islands, a species of Acacia, yielding a beautiful dark wood which is used in building and cabinet-work; the bark is employed in tanning. Also attrib.
1850Scoresby Cheever's Whalem. Adv. ii. (1859) 19 Over⁓grown with huge roots of the kamani and koa trees. 1860Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 270 Koa, a kind of Hawaiian mahogany. 1887Science X. 115 The remarkable boards of koa-wood,..standing on which they rode through the surf. 1954J. Sheridan in J. Macdonald Lethal Sex (1962) 181 Four men carried the pigs on huge koa platters carved with supporting feet. 1965N.Z. Listener 17 Dec. 4/2 The commoners [in Hawaii] were permitted only the heavier and less buoyant Koa boards. |