English Explanatory Dictionary

mauka

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv
  1. inland, towards the mountains.
noun
  1. The flowering Andean root vegetable Mirabilis expansa, which was important to the Incas and which survives in cold, windy places several thousand meters above sea level.
  2. One of the edible tuberous roots this plant produces.

Word forms

mauka maukas

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian mauka (“landward, shoreward (from the sea), towards the inland”).

Synonyms

chago

Related words

makai
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