From this grove we travelled as before in single file over an immense expanse of lava of the kind called pahoehoe, or satin rock, to distinguish it from the a-a, or jagged, rugged, impassable rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

Nothing but black lava'mostly solidified ropy pahoehoe, with a sprinkling of dangerously sharp a'a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chronicles of Riddick]

With a good-natured singsong having something to do with vultures and fudge, the alien followed the two men across the glowing pahoehoe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of The Matter]

Professor Alexander, of Honolulu, supposes them to be from the beginning less fluid than pahoehoe, and that they advance very slowly, being full of solid points, or centres of cooling: that a-a, in fact, grains like sugar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

Ahead and to the right were rolling miles of a pahoehoe sea, bounded by the unseen Pacific 3,000 feet below, with countless craters, fissures emitting vapour, and all other concomitants of volcanic action; bounded to the north by the vast crater of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

In Hawaii, a'a and pahoehoe are both types of what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johnny Goodtimes] Reference

It is composed of rough hummocks of pahoehoe, rising out of a sandy desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

The pahoehoe extends in the Hilo direction from hence about twenty-three miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

By 8 February, pahoehoe lava flows had advanced 700 m from the base of the pali S onto the coastal plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

But beyond this lie ten miles of pahoehoe, the lava-flows of ages, with only now and then the vestige of a trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

We soon entered on vast uplands of pahoehoe which ground away the animals 'feet, a horrid waste, extending upwards for 7000 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

A very frequent aspect of pahoehoe is the likeness on a magnificent scale of a thick coat of cream drawn in wrinkling folds to the side of a milk-pan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

It was said that the Aleamai people won the victory over the much greater number from the other places, by landing the puhi on the pahoehoe stones at Lehoula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends] Reference

For two hours before reaching the top, the way lies over countless flows and beds of lava, much disintegrated, and almost entirely of the kind called pahoehoe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

Professor Alexander, of Honolulu, supposes them to be from the beginning less fluid than pahoehoe, and that they advance very slowly, being full of solid points, or centres of cooling: that a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

It produced the largest lava flow in historic times when a fissure 16 miles long sent a flow of pahoehoe (fast-moving, smooth or ropy lava) more than 40 miles, The 2.9 cubic miles of lava covered 218 square miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [TechNudge] Reference

Hawaii is actually at the present time being built up from the ocean, and this great sea of pahoehoe is not to be regarded as a vindictive eruption, bringing desolation on a fertile region, but as an architectural and formative process.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

Ahead and to the right were rolling miles of a pahoehoe sea, bounded by the unseen Pacific 3,000 feet below, with countless craters, fissures emitting vapour, and all other concomitants of volcanic action; bounded to the north by the vast crater of Kilauea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

We had a delicious gallop over the sands to the Waiakea river, which we crossed, and came upon one of the vast lava-flows of ages since, over which we had to ride carefully, as the pahoehoe lies in rivers, coils, tortuosities, and holes partially concealed by a luxuriant growth of ferns and convolvuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

The trail, if such it could be called, wound among koa and sandalwood trees occasionally, but habitually we picked our way over waves, coils, and hummocks of pahoehoe surrounded by volcanic sand, and with only a few tufts of grass, abortive ohelos, and vigorous sow thistles (much relished by Kahele) growing in their crevices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

Ropey pahoehoe lava near North Crater, Craters of the Moon National Monument.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

We soon entered on vast uplands of pahoehoe which ground away the animals’ feet, a horrid waste, extending upwards for 7000 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

Oio, p. 48. oio, a species of fish. oo, digger, p. 52. oopu, a species of small fish living in fresh water rivers and ponds. opae, a small fish; a shrimp; a crab. opihi-koele, a species of shell-fish, p. 224. opihis, shell-fish, p. 70. pa, wall, p. 157. pa, fish-hook, p. 247. pa hi aku, fish-pearl. pahoa, stone hatchet. pahoehoe, smooth, shining lava. pahonua, place of refuge, p. 156. pahoola, a remnant, a piece, p. 56. pahu kaeke, p. 186. paiula, the royal red kapa of old, p 145. pakai, an herb used for food in time of scarcity. pakui, a house joined to a house above -- that is, a tower, p. 158. pala, ripe, soft; also, as a noun, a vegetable used as food in time of scarcity. pale, a director, p. 115. pali, precipice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends] Reference