incoujahao
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3548)
Example: The forked stick of this plant is used as a pole to hold the outrigger on a canoe. Children blow the small fruits of this plant through the hollow petioles of the papaya leaf or a hollowed bamboo stem as a game. As an aphrodisiac, two handfuls of the leaves of this species are boiled in fresh water and men drink these for 7 days. The next week they will be "strong." People cannot have sex while they are drinking this remedy, but then the next week when they have finished the treatment, they will be "very strong."
Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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incoujahau
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tree, 6-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3218)
Example: 1. Take a handful of leaves, squeeze with the hands into 1/2 liter of water, drink when tired; said to open the "blood nerves" and to purify the blood and make the muscles of the male sexual organ strong. 2a. When a person is planting watermelons in the garden, as the vines grow, split them and perforate the vines with a sharpened stick. This practice is said to ensure that the watermelons will be as prolific as the seeds in Vitex. 2b. If you plant vines in your garden like cucumber, beans, melons, pierce the stem with a small sliver of this branch and it will make the vine have more fruit.
Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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incowos
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herb to 1. 5 m, flowers white with pink tips. Growing on sandy path along coastal walk to ute. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4989)
Example: The leaves of this plant are used to finish the ridge of the house roof. Lay the leaves horzontally on top of the roof, and the sides of the roof are thatched with palms or grass. Layer 10 leaves on top of each other to enable this part of the roof (known as nitjintiniom) to last for a long time--perhaps up to 6 years. If this is used on the top of a roof where there is a fire burning, such as a kitchen, and this leaf gets a lot of smoke, it can last much longer a the top of the roof--perhaps 10 years or more.
Scientific name: Alpinia zerumbet, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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incowos ates
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herb, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3676)
Scientific name: Hedychium coronarium, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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incowos up̃utap̃
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herb, growing in disturbed secondary forest/garden area. Sterile; leaves fragrant. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3695)
Scientific name: Hornstedtia scottiana, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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incowos yag
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plant used to make ceremonial head wreath and neck garland
Speaker: Romario Yaufati
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incri u injanowancei cap
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herb to 1 m, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4868)
Example: Red fruit is used to feed chickens.
Scientific name: Rivina humilis, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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incuwukava
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liana climbing on Fagraea tree (8 m tall), growing in secondary forest (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3663)
Scientific name: Piper macropiper, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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indal elwa
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multicolored taro, fancy-leaved caladium (RPV #146)
Scientific name: Caladium bicolor, Speaker: Romario Yaufati
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indawoc
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[indawoɣ]
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Long-tailed jaeger
Example: Photo by jacksnipe1990/Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr
Scientific name: Stercorarius longicaudus, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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indejen
indijinecei
indinbev
indroumu
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fish prepared in a wrapping of pandanus leaf
Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.
Speaker: Osiani Nerian
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ineañdel
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this collection is a seedling sprouting from a coconut fruit. the adult palm is growing in an agricultural field. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4950)
Example: The young seedlings are removed from the coconuts and fed to pigs. Children like to eat the apical meristems of the sprouts, peeling off the harder, outer leaves and eating the soft white part. The endosperm of the sprouted coconut is edible. The local name means "young seedling."
Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Tony Keith
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inewosneiak
n.
herb to 1 m, flower bracts yellow. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4921)
Example: Introduced species, used for decoration. Planted near houses and roads. Use the flower for decorating hair.
Scientific name: Alpinia purpurata, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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inga
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n.
Purple Swamphen
Example: Photo by Bernard Spragg, License: Public domain via Flickr
Scientific name: Porphyrio porphyrio, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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ingaije
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
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ingejei wou
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tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3647)
Example: 1. The straight poles of this plant are sharpened and used to plant kava, and only for kava. Not used for planting other crops. 2. Special for catching eels in fresh water, poke stick with leaves into hole where eel lives and they don’t like it so they come out and you catch them, by cutting with knife.
Scientific name: Maoutia diversifolia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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ingidyinyat
n.
sandalwood
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 85
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ingitjiñat
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small tree, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3528)
Example: 1. This plant is used as firewood, but also the heartwood is sold. 2. In 2016, the first grade wood was 2500 VT per kilo, the second grade wood was 2000 VT per kilo. 3. The ancestors used to take the oil or wood chips from this tree and bathe with it to keep away evil spirits of the forest. It is currently planted on Aneityum for commerce. Scrape bark of sandalwood into coconut oil in same wat as GMP 3513 (gardenia) boil and take out the bark. 4. The leaves can be fed to pigs to make them strong and heavy.
Scientific name: Santalum austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inhachac
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herb, growing in partially drained marsh. Flowers purple. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3596)
Scientific name: Ipomoea aquatica, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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inhai
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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inhaij
n.
the candle-nut tree; also "inhaig"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 85
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inhakli kwori
inhalav imtinjap
n.
wind-related term; no definition provided. Possibly referring to "inhalav" ’child’.
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114
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inhamese an neaig
n.
an old coconut
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 85
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inhamesei
n.
the name of a native plant
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 86
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inharedej
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Ribbontail stingray
Example: Photo by zsispeo, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr
Scientific name: Taeniura lymma, Speaker: Chris Nevehev
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inharisihau
inharmejicop
inhatmapig
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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inhau
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
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inhau am̃a
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shrub, 1. 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3560)
Example: In ancient times this plant was used as a fiber to make skirts and rope. Take the stems, remove the leaves, rett the stems in sea water for a few weeks, sun dry the stems and then weave into rope or skirts. This plant is not much used for this purpose at the present time. This plant is used to make a medicine with an unspecified use.
Scientific name: Abutilon indicum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inhau am̃ah
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shrub to 1 m, flowers yellow (collection: Michael J. Balick #4960)
Scientific name: Abutilon indicum, Speaker: Tony Keith
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inhau amai
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moderately branched treelet, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3203)
Example: 1a. This type of hibiscus has young leaves that are reddish in color and it is an edible type. The stems are eaten during April-July. Harvest the stems, beat them and cut off the outer bark. Collect inner bark, slicing it off the stem and wrapping it in a banana type leaf with coconut milk added. Bake all night at least 8 hours, then it is eaten. Said to taste like a root vegetable. Used during the dry season when there are not many crops available. 1b. Take young shoot of the tree then pound the base to separate the base of the bark from the stem but leave it on the stem, say pound 4-5 inches around the base, then come back 3-4 months and the rest of the bark would be thicker. Then cut where it was pounded, cut stem in 1.5-foot pieces, bake on an earth oven, leaves on bottom layer (on top of charcoal) then sticks, then leaves on top, then hot stones, and then more leaves. Bake for 1.5 hours, then remove a stick at a time and use shell to scrape away outer bark, cut into 6 inch pieces, put on log, pound to make softer, put in lap lap leaves leaf wrapping, add coconut milk, put in stone oven, cook for one hour then open lap lap leaves and eat. 2. This variety is for this purpose just like Pohnpei. 3. This variety is not used for grass skirt.
Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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inhau cap̃
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low tree. Found along the coast. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #11)
Example: 1. To speed up delivery and reduce painin labor - Take a piece of stem from a small branch and take the skin and outter bark off. Grate out the inner part with water and squeeze out juice into a cup for the woman to drink. 2. To help with pain/difficulty giving birth - Take even numbers of inhoa top leaves (Must have a partner so the lone top is not vulnerable to bad spirits - in all Rosita’s medicines, she always uses partners like this). Using 2, 4, or 6, of these leaves chew them and swallow the whole thing. This is slippery. Take at the first pain.
Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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inhelegaij
n.
kind of sugarcane; also "nalgaij"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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inhen owuh
inhenid
n.
kind of sugarcane
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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inhetelga
n.
a runner, the fruit of which is round like a cake
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 86
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inhetisjopoig
n.
kind of breadfruit
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118
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inhinid
n.
kind of banana
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118
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inhitilga
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liana climbing up a Syzygium tree into the canopy, growing at edge of dense forest near garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3637)
Example: Rope is made from the inner bark of this plant. Use the rope immediately after it is stripped from the bark, there is no need to treat it with heat as is the case with other plants. Alternatively, the coil of bark rope can be kept in fresh water where it will stay soft until needed. Medicine for women when sick with a headache from the spirit sea snake, or sea god, or sea spirit that makes people sick. Men use it to help with toochaches. Women use it to help with backpain, stomache pain, or any other pain. Must pound two leaves taken from the top of the plant and combine with incespiv. Rosalina Nijae said it was mostly used by men so did not know how to use it well. Walking in bush and become thirsty, cut vine on 1 side and drink. Seeds made into foot bracelets for men for Kastom dances and make all sorts of different sounds. In some places taboo to cut large one as the large ones embody the snake spirit.
Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inhoam̃a
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shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3441)
Example: Flowers put in hear as an ornament that has power because it is so beautiful. Leaves are burned and added to a bamboo pipe and mix with a foam that forms in fresh water, when people go to a traditional dance, men paint part of their face eyebrows and beard to attract attention, hence the name, pone part of which "am̃a" means "staring", because it will cause people to stare at the one wearing it.
Scientific name: Abutilon indicum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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inhoc
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Honeyeater, black and red
Example: Photo by Lars Petersson, IBC1270200. Photo of Cardinal Myzomela Myzomela cardinalis at Makira (San Cristobal) Island, Solomon Archipelago. License: All rights reserved. Accessible on Internet Bird Collection
Scientific name: Myzomela cardinalis, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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inhodaig et ecro
n.
astronomy word, no def. given--possibly referring to a common shellfish "inhudaig". no def. for "ecro" or any feasible alternate spellings.
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113
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inholai
inholai mobo
inhos i mijan
n.
kind of sugarcane
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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inhosamu
n.
kind of sugarcane
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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inhosumeljag ~ nu inhosumeljag
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n.
Black-tailed whistler
Example: Photo by Lip Kee, License: CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr
Scientific name: Pachycephala melanura, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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inhubej
n.
calabash
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 132
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inhudran
n.
the stem of a bunch of bananas, coconuts, etc.
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 86
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inhujac
inhujah
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
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inhujum
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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inhulec
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Fan tailed gerygone
Example: Photo by Roger Le Guen, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr
Scientific name: Gerygone flavolateralis, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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inhulec ~ iɣleɣ
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Yellow-throated White-eye
Example: Illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Scientific name: Zosterops metcalfii, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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inhundain
inhupau
inhupnan
n.
first fruits
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 86
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inhurei
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
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inhus
n.
stump of a tree; shaft of a candlestick
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 86
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inhus u miliaig
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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inhuterau
n.
a rainbow
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113
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