inceimu
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Example: This is a sacred plant. The wood is used for rafters in house building. To plant taro, take an 8 cm diameter stick, sharpen it and use to make holes for planting. The stick is as long as needed for a person to stand while making the hole.
Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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incet edwa
inhakli kwori
inholai mobo
inhujac
inmopoñ
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Example: The young stems are used to make fishing spears. These stems are also used to make the poles that connect an outrigger to a traditional canoe, as they are light and strong. The large trees have extensive roots and stumps and are used as a pen for pigs by making a fence from these.
Scientific name: Heritiera littoralis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inteses
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Example: This plant is said to have a type of magical use. Young men take one node of the stem of this plant and use it in an unspecified way to attract young women.
Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Tony Keith
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intesyaniau
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Example: The stem of this plant is used to make walls of houses. Collect the stem and remove the leaves, and then take one of the bush vines (any of them) and tie the stems into bundles for making house walls or fences for chicken pens. Children make a whistle from a hollow piece of stem from this plant.
Scientific name: Miscanthus sinensis, Speaker: Tony Keith
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inyat
maprum
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Example: This grass is planted to protect a person’s farm from being affected by evil spirits.
Scientific name: Chrysopogon aciculatus, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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naero
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Example: 1. Wood used for timber boards. 2. Timber tree, sawn timber young stems for spear fishing, clean bark, heat it, affix tips on the end.
Scientific name: Dacrycarpus imbricatus, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nahoj
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Example: 1. The ripe fruits (yellow) are eaten. It is considered very sweet. 2. Young saplings are used to fashion a digging stick to plant kava and taro.
Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nala
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Example: People must not drink kava close to this tree. If you have any leaves of this plant with you when you drink kava you will not feel its effect.
Scientific name: Dendrolobium umbellatum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nalau
napaecei
nap̃ojev
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Example: Poles made from this plant are used for house rafters and burned for firewood. To plant taro in a swampy area, collect the leaves of this species and put them in the hole where the taro is to be planted, mix with a bit of soil and then plant the taro on top of that. Leaves are a type of fertilizer. Used when baking with the earth oven. Hot stones cover the food and then the leaves from this plant cover the stones. The leaves stay on the branch.
Scientific name: Polyscias cissodendron, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nariko
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Example: This plant is used to fertilize fields, especially by growing it in fields that have been used for other crops for a very long time. The seeds can be cooked when dry and hard, boiled in water, or eaten directly without preparation when green and soft.
Scientific name: Cajanus cajun, Speaker: Tony Keith
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necsap
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Example: The stem makes a good digging stick to plant taro. Also branches of this tree are cut to tie the canoe to the outrigger. Used for the small sticks that sit at the base of the larger sticks that hold the outrigger (see photos).
Scientific name: Halfordia kendack, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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necyak
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Example: Roast the tuber of this vine on an open fire for 20-40 minutes, peel off the skin and eat like cassava or taro. Chew it and drink the "juice" while spitting out the fiber. It grows wild, season of harvesting is in May. Very tasty food for people, considered "numba wan" food for this island.
Scientific name: Plectranthus scutellarioides, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nefesgamtan
nehep
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Example: 1. The trunk of this tree is used to make the body and outrigger of a traditional canoe. 2. The inner bark is used as a bandage for cuts and wounds. When the inner bark is grated it yields a sticky substance. The sap acts as a liquid stitch and reduced the chance of scarring. When this is dry one must use a knife to remove the residue.
Scientific name: Hernandia moerenhoutiana, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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neiang mesei
nekro
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Example: Boil inner bark in seawater to treat scabies, a skin condition. Take one handful of bark and put in one liter of water, wash the affected area once daily for a week .
Scientific name: Geissois denhamii, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nhujac
nitit a nelgo waj
nom̃o
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Example: This tree is a good source of wood for house posts and roof rafters. Some people eat the ripe fruits of this species but even on the same tree, some of the ripe fruits have a sour taste, even though they look alike.
Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nouras
numuyehec
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Example: 1. Wood used for house posts and for small parts of the house such as a porch. 2. Timber tree, house posts, young trees for roof rafters.
Scientific name: Syzygium kajewskii, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nup̃ut
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Example: The leaves of this palm are used for thatch. Split trunks for house walls. Middle fiber of pinnae for broom. Seed is carved – handcrafts.
Scientific name: Metroxylon warburgii, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nwujvaeñ
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Example: This vine is used to make rope. Collect the stem, roll it in a figure 8, heat it on a fire and tie it on a house while the vine is still hot. Weave a ?? net to catch fish.
Scientific name: Smilax vitiensis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nämdokai
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Example: Leaf: infusion taken internally against pain
Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 442
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