different between candlenut vs kukui

English

candle +? nut

candlenut (plural candlenuts)

A flowering tree (Aleurites moluccana and Aleurites rockinghamensis) of the family Euphorbiaceae, also known as candleberry, Indian walnut, kemiri, varnish tree or kukui nut tree.
The seed of this tree, used as a candle

From Hawaiian kukui.

kukui (plural kukuis)

(Hawaii) Aleurites moluccana, the candlenut tree.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 43:
  Passing through a grove of kukui trees, with their silver-gray leaves, and then through a valley, they would have reached sugarcane fields, their stalks as tall as a man and densely clumped together.

kukui

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