Definition of Nihau

1. Noun. The most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai).

Exact synonyms: Nihau Island
Group relationships: Hawaiian Islands, Sandwich Islands
Generic synonyms: Island

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nihau

Nigerian scam
Nigerians
Nigerien
Nigeriens
Nighantu
Nighantus
Nigra
Nigras
Nigritia
Nigritian
Nigritians
Nigroporus
Nigroporus vinosus
Nigrospora
Nihau
Nihau Island
Nihilarian
Nihon
Nihongo
Niigata
Niihau
Nijinskian
Nijinsky
Nijmegen
Nike
Niki
Nikiforoff
Nikiforoff's method
Nikis

Literary usage of Nihau

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Narrative of a Tour Through Hawaii, Or Owhyhee: Or Owhyhee; with by William Ellis (1827)
"nihau, a small island, twenty miles in length, and seven miles wide, ... and nihau, and contributes essentially to the support of the inhabitants. ..."

2. A Residence in the Sandwich Islands by Charles Samuel Stewart (1839)
"nihau lies south-west from Kauai fifteen miles, and is twenty miles long and seven ... KAULA, situated seventeen miles south-west of nihau, like Molokini, ..."

3. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1891)
"The island of nihau was then for sale; they purchased it, and taking their wooden houses with them, ..."

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