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aridjai
v.a. to ascend, to go up
bookmarkcustard apple
n. tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3520)
Example: Children sometimes eat this fruit but it smells bad. Adults do not eat it. An introduced species so there is no local name.
bookmarkhui asan
v. trees; fruit
bookmarkianiv
n. yesterday
bookmarkigcase
n. a place down, or westward
bookmarkinceideuc
n. the white wood of a tree
bookmarkincispev
n. tree. Growing in village garden. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #19)
Example: 1. To cure the sea snake (nispev) curse that causes missed periods. First the husband must combine 4 young leaves of incispev and 4 young leaves of nafanu and mash and squeeze the juice into a small bamboo (1-1.5 inch diameter) The nafanu is important because it is a plant that connects to the sea. Use wildcane leaves cover the bamboo closed. Go to the sick person and unwrap the snake from her. Start from the top and let the woman drink a small part of the potion then wash her with the mixture, making sure to wash head, elbows, knees, feet, and belly. Then take a leaf of naha and break it over the woman’s belly button to break the snake off. Smash the bamboo vessel to pieces. Leave the woman there until the wash dries on her. This takes one whole day and the ceremony in the evening so she can sleep and she must not eat. This ritual is performed by men.
bookmarkinhetisjopoig
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarkinhus
n. stump of a tree; shaft of a candlestick
bookmarkinhutlavlav
n. a bamboo flute
bookmarkinje tadwain anholwas
injedete anawanarin
inlepei
n. native petticoat
bookmarkinlepei u inpoded
n. epiphyte, growing in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4104)
Example: 1. This plant is considered bad luck when hunting or fishing. When doing these activities, do not decorate your hair with them. 2. This plant is used to weave the sheath portion of "nambas". First the stems are retted, then the inner portion of the plant removed. Once removed, the sheath is woven with the blanched fiber. 3. This is considered the male version of this plant. See GMP #4105, Phlegmarius sp. for the female version.
bookmarkintal has
n. kind of taro
bookmarkinteri amu
n. kind of taro
bookmarkisji ariko
v. to gather beans
bookmarkkapou
n. gun
bookmarknahad
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknahren
n. half-tide, ebbing
bookmarknalak u nije
nalauba
[nalauba] n. Emerald Dove
Example: Photo by Dr. Raju Kasambe/Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
bookmarknamakapasi
nameleahpu
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarknamohos
n. Green jobfish
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknamop
n. kind of tree
bookmarknapleaig
n. kind of tree
bookmarknapojev
n. tree to 5 m, dbh 10 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4889)
Example: The leaves are used to cover meat when baking it in a stone oven (inmawum). This will soften the meat and keep it moist. Used when other species of this genus are not available, for example if you are in the bush.
bookmarknauhwa
n. kind of tree
bookmarknaupitcat
nauwainapit
n. lightning
bookmarknecñopod
nedouyatmas
nefesgamtan
n. Humpnose big-eye bream
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknegainohos
n. bunch of bananas; also "nigainohos"
bookmarkneheptal
n. tree to 15 m tall, dbh 25 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4903)
Example: Wood is used to make canoe as it is very light and lasts in salt water. As a styptic to stop bleeding, when a person gets a cut in the bush, scrape off outer bark and use inner bark scrapings to put on cut. Stops bleeding, leave on for one day.
bookmarknehpan
n. a wing, a sheath, a covering of bananas
bookmarknejecjec
neka
nekrei
n. a large bat; the flying fox
bookmarknemek
n. yellow leaves for making petticoats
bookmarknepig u wara
n. wind-related term; no definition provided
bookmarknese
n. shrub to 2 m, flowers white. forest near house. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4871)
Example: A handful of flower buds are collected and put into water with 1-2 pieces of papaya roots. Heat the water and drink it hot for the treatment of hypertension or vein problems, or to promote circulation in overweight people. Do this treatment 1x a month. The white sap is collected and used to soften octopus flesh for eating. Put sap, fruits and chopped leaves in a bowl and add the octopus, allowing it to remain in the bowl for 1 hour--this will soften the flesh of the animal. The sap can be used to wash the skin of tough beef or wild pig--it helps to "burn" off (remove) the skin. When cooking tough meat, take young fruits of this tree and cut them up and put them in the pot with the meat, boil it to soften the meat which can then be cooked.
bookmarknete
n. kind of tree
bookmarknetumtehi
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarkneudan tauoc neaig
n. the center sprout of a coconut tree
bookmarknijhinga
n. shrub, 1-1. 25 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3591)
Example: The fruits of this species are edible when ripe (black) and are very sweet. It grows in the white grass area in the open. It is "numba one" fruit. If a person eats a lot of these it turns their tongue reddish-purple.
bookmarknipyipei
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknipʧin njelas
nirid unmu
n. terrestrial fern, growing in primary rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3614)
Example: People who go fishing take this plant along with other unspecified leaves, crush them and rub them on the fishing line that the person is using. This is said to attract more fish to the bait. It is also a "message plant" to be put in a person’s hat when they come back from fishing and then people know that they caught fish. Local name means "fish gill."
bookmarknititan cei
nohap
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknohos esjig inwai
n. a banana
bookmarknohos futuna
n. the Futuna banana
bookmarknokoko
n. tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3540)
Example: The straight trunk of this tree is used to make canoes. The black seed in the fruit is used to make necklaces. The inner bark is peeled and crushed in sea water and rubbed in the hair to make it curly. People do this treatment every day to make long hair curl like a rasta.
bookmarknuarin aridjai vaig
n. an upward slope
bookmarknupyihet
n. new moon
bookmarknämdokai
romo romo
n. vine to 1 m, fruits black. Secondary forest. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4906)
bookmarktatau
n. Bigeye barracuda
Example: Photo by Philippe Guillaume, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkucsiligei
v.a. to pare off rind
bookmarkuvid
n. three days ago; three days hence
bookmarkwamhau
n. kind of taro
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