kahoolawe
IPA: kʌhuɫˈɔ
Root Word: Kahoolawe
noun
- An uninhabited island, the smallest of the main 8 islands of Hawaii in the United States of America.
Examples of "kahoolawe" in Sentences
- Ka moho ali'i swam in the area around Maui and Kahoolawe.
- An 1857 survey of Kahoolawe to a sequence of ranching ventures.
- These indicators of an earlier time can still be found on Kahoolawe.
- It is found on all the main Hawaiian islands except Kahoolawe and Niihau.
- Kahoolawe has always been sparsely populated, due to a lack of freshwater.
- Punishment for adultery included banishment to the barren island of Kahoolawe.
- More than one quarter of Kahoolawe has been eroded down to saprolitic hardpan.