(a.) Belonging to Hawaii or the Sandwich Islands, or to the people of Hawaii.
(n.) A native of Hawaii.
Example Sentences:
(1) Late stage at diagnosis is common among Filipino and ethnic Hawaiian woman, and their risk of death is 1.5-1.7 times that of Caucasian, Chinese, and Japanese women with the disease, even after adjustment for age, extent of disease, and socio-economic status.
(2) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(3) A diet history method was tested for reproducibility among 106 older men from the five major ethnic groups (Japanese, Caucasian, Hawaiian, Filipino, and Chinese) of Hawaii.
(4) This paper describes a trial of the traditional Hawaiian diet fed ad libitum to Native Hawaiians with multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease to assess its effect on obesity and cardiovascular risk factors.
(5) Sequencing identified an Antennapedia-class gene encoding a homeobox that is the homologue of the Hawaiian sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla homeobox gene.
(6) The combined results of the Hawaiian and Brisbane studies (total population studied over five years 1 600 000) showed that no epileptic children died from accidents in the sea or in swimming pools; and the 2.9% incidence of immersion accidents due to seizures in the Hawaiian study compares well with the incidence found in other series.
(7) 5,7-dimethoxycoumarin and isopimpinellin, together with the well-known phototoxic, photo-irritant furanocoumarins psoralen and 8-methoxypsoralen, were isolated and identified from leaves and fruits of Pelea anisata H. Mann, a plant whose fruit are used in the construction of mohikana leis used in parts of the Hawaiian Islands.
(8) Drosophila differens, endemic to Molokai, Drosophila planitibia of Maui, and Drosophila silvestris and Drosophila heteroneura from the island of Hawaii are chromosomally homosequential species that presumably have colonized the newer islands of the Hawaiian archipelago by sequential founder events.
(9) Scientists say they have discovered what might be a new species of octopus while searching the Pacific Ocean floor near the Hawaiian Islands.
(10) The hypothesis is advanced that while the Hawaiian Islands contain one of the world's largest percentages of endemic species in the flora, only a few of these species were used for illnesses, though many endemic species were used for building, tapa making, and the foundation of the elaborate and renowned feather cloaks.
(11) Hybridization of Drosophila homeo box DNA probes to Southern transfers of genomic DNA from the Hawaiian sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla has revealed that the sea urchin genome contains at least five homeo boxes.
(12) To determine whether the primary personality factors of Hawaiian, middle adolescents were the same as those Cattell postulated in 1970, for adolescents on the mainland of the United States, and in 1974 for adolescents in Germany, a personality questionnaire representing those factors completed by 694 Hawaiian, middle adolescents (M age = 15.9 yr.) was factor analyzed.
(13) The lowest prevalence in the Hawaiian islands estimated at about 15% to 20% in adults, was observed in Japanese.
(14) The most plausible genetic model is the presence of major gene effects with the multifactorial component for the Hawaiian and Caucasian groups, whereas no major gene action is evident for the Oriental group.
(15) New Mexico Hispanic men and Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian and Filipino men and women had significantly higher rates (weighted rate ratios ranged from 1.56 to 3.17).
(16) Evidence from in situ hybridizations of DNA from the transposable element hobo to polytene salivary gland chromosome squashes reveals that hobo occupies both cytological breakpoints of three of four endemic inversions sampled from natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster in the Hawaiian islands.
(17) Of 1716 questionnaires distributed at various Hawaiian hospitals and clinics, 492 were collected from women 17 to 46 years of age at the time of sterilization.
(18) However, it could be worse in some locations, just as we saw record thermal stress in the northernmost Mariana Islands and the north-western Hawaiian islands in 2014.” Predicted thermal stress in Indian Ocean.
(19) The validity of a quantitative diet history method was evaluated among 262 men and women from the five major ethnic groups of Hawaii (Japanese, Caucasian, Chinese, Filipino, and Hawaiian) in 1984-1987.
(20) These are Bermuda, the Galápagos Islands, the Great Barrier Reef, the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean, the Hawaiian islands, the Mediterranean Sea, Monterey Bay, the Arctic, the Patagonian Shelf, the Antarctic and the Western Indian Ocean.
Limu
Definition:
(n.) The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as Limu Lipoa, Limu palawai, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Parents have seen that a lot of schooling doesn't always mean a lot of learning," said Nivi Mukherjee, who runs e-Limu , a private venture that aims to improve standards in Kenyan schools by providing inexpensive tablet computers.
(2) Palytoxin has been isolated from the zoanthids "limu-make-o-Hana" (Tentatively identified as Palythoa sp.)