🍈 A tropical fruit 🌳 A tropical tree

noni

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A small tropical tree that makes a fruit you can eat and use in traditional medicine

noun
/ˈnoʊni/

Australian

: noni

Farmers in Hawaii grow noni for use in juices and health supplements.

Examples

The noni tree thrives in tropical climates.
The noni tree is valued in many Pacific islands for its fruit and medicinal properties.
She learned how to prepare traditional remedies using the leaves and fruit of the noni.
Many people believe that noni has healing properties.
The noni fruit, with its unique taste, has been used in traditional medicine for centuries.
In Polynesia, many people consume noni juice as a health tonic due to its believed medicinal properties.
The leaves of the noni plant are often brewed into tea for their health benefits.

Surface Forms

noni singular

nonis plural

Etymology

Noni comes from Polynesian languages such as Tahitian and Hawaiian, where noni names the same small tropical 'tree' or shrub used in island life. Because people used the plant for food and traditional 'medicine', English kept the local name for the tree and its uses.