Sentence:  In the recent effort of the Hawaiian Fruit and Taro Co. to preserve bananas for export, the Iholena and <WSD>Maoli</WSD> — having more of the mealy qualities — were found to be the best for this purpose, while the China banana seemed to have no drying qualities at all, but usually melted away to a pulp. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (maoli) (type of banana).