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ahlaujai
v.n. go up
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ateucradi se an namilvai
v.n. get off the reef
bookmarkehgin
adj. afar
bookmarkelgai
v.n. expand as a leaf
bookmarkigcase
n. a place down, or westward
bookmarkincejev ataheñ
inceslum
n. vegetables; herbs, as taro, bananas; every vegetable planted for food
bookmarkincesmetaig
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarkincetevak
n. Sabre squirrelfish
Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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inhau cap̃
n. 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.
bookmarkinlepei u inpoded
inlepei u inpoded atam̃wain
inmobolhat
inrigen natmas
n. kind of banana
bookmarkinrukdum nohos
n. kind of banana
bookmarkintal eteuc
n. the name of a plant with a white flower; a lily
bookmarkinteijid
n. species of pine
bookmarkintesyanyac
n. Blacksaddled coralgrouper (deep sea)
Example: Photo by jidanchaomian / Flickr, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkkaradakoal
n. a native pudding made of taro, coconut milk, etc.
bookmarkkaru uwaruwa
n. wind-related term; no definition provided
bookmarknahmas
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
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nameleahpu
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarknamou
napun nitai caig
n. the skin or rind of food
bookmarknauincai
n. tree
bookmarknaupigat
nauram aged
n. kind of banana
bookmarknawou
neaig
n. the kernel of a coconut; the coconut tree
bookmarknecjop̃dak
n. prostrate creeping vine along coastlines. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #10)
Example: 1. To cure rubbush blood - Take a handfull f leaves of any age, pound it into a cupfull of water, squeeze the juice and drink when woman feels pain in head or inside the body or when the inside of the body is hot. Drink this once a day until the pain goes away. 2. To cure excessive bleeding after giving birth - boil naojapdak leaves (2-16) in seawater until leaves are soft and the water is brown. Sit on this water. 3. To close the cervix - boil 2 naojapdak leaves in water and bath in it. 4. Medicine: Smash leaves 1 handful, into cup and add a small amount of water to treat constipation—1 cup for children; 1.5 litres for adults. 5. Stomachache: same treatment, will clear bowel. 6. For leg sores, collect whole plant, put in water – a pool of water for 1 week, then use to dip sore as on leg into it for 10-15 minutes cure the sore.
bookmarknefelelicai acen
n. hemlock
bookmarknehevaig
n. kind of tree
bookmarknejeg
n. tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3514)
Example: 1. The wood is strong and good to make house posts. People use these for this purpose on the coast as salt water does not bother this wood. 2. People eat fruit, split fruit in half, carefully scrape the inner part into a pot of water, keep over night – next day rinse, fry or cook with coconut milk and can add tinned tuna for example, very hard work.
bookmarknekinkin
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknemeg
n. Anchor tuskfish, Orange-dotted tuskfish
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein, iNaturalist: CC BY-A-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknemered
nepek cat
netigi
nikam
n. large tree, 18 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4076)
Example: 1. The name means "I come". This plant is used to convey messages. When a branch of this plant is left at the house of a person it indicates someone had visited them and they were not there. 2. Children eat the nut of the ripe (yellow) fruits.
bookmarknitato naretou
nomojced
n. terrestrial fern growing in rain forest on the mountain slope. Leaves dimorphic. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3285)
bookmarknomotmot
n. grass
bookmarknomotmot ijis
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknosjacai
n. Two-striped sweetlips, giant sweetlips
Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknuhlinevai
n. kind of banana
bookmarknupnyineuc
n. another name for masoa; arrowroot
bookmarknuputreiki
n. kind of tree
bookmarknwujvaeñ
n. vine climbing on Myristica fatua, growing in primary rainforest. Fruits green. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3615)
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.
bookmarkpudvel
puke
adv. seaward
bookmarkridiau
n. kind of taro
bookmarktatau
n. Pickhandle barracuda
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkupuhasin
n. sprouts
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