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anaclelen
n. forecast
bookmarkemilmat
adj. green, blue
bookmarkeucupupu (nieg)
v. to swell, as reeds when near blossoming
bookmarkfara
n. pineapple
bookmarkhui asan
v. trees; fruit
bookmarkigcaijai
n. a place up or eastward
bookmarkincanaij yohon
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarkinhau 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.
bookmarkinhen owuh
inhoam̃a
n. 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.
bookmarkinhurei
n. kind of tree
bookmarkinlepei u inpoded
inmal ahapol
n. a group of cultivations
bookmarkinmayinpak
n. Peacock hind
Example: Photo by Andrew J. Green / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY-A 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkinmoijeuv natpoig
n. a comet
bookmarkinmoso
n. fog or mist
bookmarkinpece lelicai
n. kind of tree
bookmarkinraurua
n. coconut leaves for a net
bookmarkintaig apig
n. kind of taro
bookmarkintapin
n. a hedge; a shelter
bookmarkintate a nelgo waj
intisiaicai
n. kind of flower or flowers (see def. for "elwa")
bookmarkintisianibul
n. rose
bookmarkinyaratmas
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarkinyidjighos
n. the center rib of the coconut leaf
bookmarkinyje
n. tree to 15 m, dbh 20 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4914)
Example: Use the leaves to make compost to be placed at the bottom of the hole where taro is to be planted, cover with soil and grow the taro in that hole. Serves as a fertilizer.
bookmarkmasoa
n. herb to 1 m, fruits green (collection: Michael J. Balick #4915)
Example: This plant was said to have been brought in by the early missionaries, used to starch their clothes and grown as a crop for export to England. Used as a food crop as well, the root is mashed, dried in the sun and kept until needed. To process, put the roots in a bowl, add water and soak for 1 day and night, pour off the water and keep the starch. Prepare this food like lap-lap that is cooked on a fire in a pan.
bookmarknabudschata
n. Achyranthes aspera L.
Example: juice squeezed from leaves; taken internally against asthma and put into boils
bookmarknadoni
n. prickly shrub
bookmarknafirama
naha
n. Crinum asiaticum L.
Example: subterranean part used as mouthwash for toothache (Crinum asiaticum)
bookmarknahoij
n. kind of tree
bookmarknamaka
namrad
nap̃at
n. terrestrial fern, growing in dwarf cloud-forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3268)
Example: For performing a weather magic ritual to produce fog, this plant is fermented along with another plant (nirid u numu) in a hole in a sacred stone (called "Naemoso") at a secret location on Aneityum.
bookmarknarasincai
n. bark
bookmarknasjiñao
nataimu
n. Brassy trevally
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknatuh
n. a sweet-smelling plant
bookmarkneaig ahi
n. a white coconut
bookmarknecna
n. Fringelip mullet
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknecna p̃a
n. Largescale mullet
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknedouyatmas
neihon
n. a chewing of wood, and spitting it on sick people, to cure them; also "naihon"
bookmarknelgou waj
nemijcopau
n. kind of palm
bookmarknerophat
n. Yellowspotted trevally, Turrum
Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Fishes of Australia, License: CC BY-A 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknerumut
n. a hollow place in taro
bookmarknikam
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.
bookmarknilpodou
n. herb, growing at edge of garden area. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3599)
Example: This is for a medicinal tea to give energy to a person who is not feeling well. Collect a handful of young stem apices and boil in 2-3 cups of water. Drink warm to help the body be strong and healthy. It is also good to treat diarrhea. When a person feels well again, stop this treatment but they can also drink this 1x daily, once before breakfast or before lunch, as a healthful tea.
bookmarknipji nomu
nipjin nalmu
nipʧin njelas
niri
n. grass to 1 m tall, florets brown (collection: Michael J. Balick #4973)
Example: This grass is used to thatch the roof of a traditional house. Tie bunches of the grass on a stick ca. 2 m long, using string from Pandanus or other vines. Lay these on the roof and tie these sticks with grass on crossbars to secure them. The flowers of this grass are harvested and put in bags to make pillows. The flowers are soft and easy to gather and make a nice pillow.
bookmarknohmunjap
n. beach
bookmarknohwan nefara
n. kind of taro
bookmarknopna
[nopɲa] n. Red-Bellied Fruit Dove
Example: Sub-adult Red-bellied Fruit Dove. Photo by Papier K / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
bookmarknouras
nupnyineuc
n. another name for masoa; arrowroot
bookmarknätiädäl
n. alstonia vitiensis var. neo ebudica
Example: young leaf--cold maceration used as contraceptive in mixture with Apulda mutica, Cyclosorus truncatus, and Dioscorea bulbifera or alone.
bookmarktatau
n. Sawtooth barracuda
Example: Photo by Stephanie W. Batzer, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkugnyiv
adj. rich; good, as applied to fruits
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