noun. The native screw-pine of the Hawaiian Islands, Pandanus tectorius. Coarse mats are made of the leaves.

"After all, he finds, or declares that he finds, the hala fruit he had sought to gather and to wear as a _lei_ about his neck, to be spoiled, broken, fit only to litter the road (_loli ka mu'o o ka hala_, verse 8; _A helelei ka'pua, a pili ke alanui_, verse 9)."

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