ieie
(ˈiːeɪˌiːeɪ)
Also ie.
[Hawaiian.]
A climbing screw-pine of the genus Freycinetia, esp. F. arborea, whose prop-roots yield a fibre. Cf. kie-kie.
| 1883 C. F. G. Cumming Fire Fountains I. vii. 128 Vines without number, the most notable being one called the ié. 1903 R. C. L. Perkins in Fauna Hawaiiensis I. 400 All those [birds] that were utilised could readily be caught by a bait of flowers, excepting perhaps the Ou, and this bird probably not less easily on account of its fondness for the ripe Ieie. 1915 W. A. Bryan Nat. Hist. Hawaii xvi. 211 Another plant peculiar to the lower woods..is the ieie, a climbing shrub. 1970 S. Carlquist Hawaii xvii. 337 (caption) The flowers of the ieie are surrounded by short leaves bright orange in color. |