pulu

pulu
/pooh"looh/, n.
a soft, elastic vegetable fiber of yellow-brown hue obtained from the young fronds of Hawaiian tree ferns, used for mattress and pillow stuffing. Also called pulu fiber.
[1825-35; < Hawaiian]

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