Loa vs Koa - What's the difference?
loa | koa |
In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 714:
, a species of large tree in the family Fabaceae which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree.
*2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 59:
*:As you get higher, native vegetation takes over, so a prospect might be framed by the dangling leaves of the beautiful koa tree, each leaf a gently curved, trembling sickle.
* {{quote-news, 2007, March 18, Anne Eisenberg, How to Soften the Edges of Technology, New York Times
, passage=The outer frame is made of koa and maple. }}
As nouns the difference between loa and koa
is that loa is in the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings while koa is species: Acacia koa, a species of large tree in the family Fabaceae which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree.As an initialism LOA
is leave of absence.loa
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(wikipedia loa)Noun
(en-noun)- Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa'' (Haitian equivalent of ''orisha ) Dambala Wèdo.
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* ----koa
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