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eti laulau
adv. soon
bookmarkhui heldei
v.n. to sail
bookmarkinceiwad
n. the name of a poisonous plant
bookmarkinhinid
n. kind of banana
bookmarkinlah
n. light
bookmarkinlobot
n. croton plant
bookmarkinman anjap
n. sea bird
bookmarkinmeranauunse
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarkinmetla
inmoijeuv ahcil
n. false star
bookmarkintesyaniau
n. grass to 3 m, flowers brown. Growing in degraded secondary forest along trail. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4969)
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.
bookmarkintesyanyac
n. Blacksaddled coralgrouper (deep sea)
Example: Photo by jidanchaomian / Flickr, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkintinan tal
n. a plantation of taro
bookmarkintop̃asiej
n. shrub, 0. 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3562)
Example: In the past the ancestors learned to cook the leaves of this species with fish in an earth over and then eat the leaves as well as the fish. Today, fish are wrapped with small leaves and then covered with lap-lap leaf (Polyscias) and cooked in an earth oven. This plant is also a "calendar plant." When you see this plant flower you know that sea turtles are getting fat and ready to harvest. As a "message plant", if a person puts this flower behind their ear or in their hat, and looks at another person, it is an invitation to that person to go with you to the nakamal for kava
bookmarkinyihev
n. kind of tree
bookmarkiñec
[iŋec] n. Mystery Island
bookmarklakasia
ma
adj. ripe, as fruit; healed, as a wound; also "mah"
bookmarkmafure mafutoga
n. an astronomy term; no definition given
bookmarkna elmai
n. cloth (related to nelmai)
bookmarknadenahao
naha
n. Crinum asiaticum L.
Example: subterranean part used as mouthwash for toothache (Crinum asiaticum)
bookmarknahoj
nahtau
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarknaledpen
nam̃am̃a
napleañ
napoijec
n. kind of tree
bookmarknarijo
natcai
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknauhoig yi amud
n. break of day
bookmarknaurakiti
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknauyan
n. dawn of day
bookmarknebgev legenhap
n. Scalloped hammerhead
Example: Photo by Xvic / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknecemas
n. fern to 30 cm, cones green (collection: Michael J. Balick #4919)
Example: Use this plant to send a message to someone that another person has died. Take 1 dried leaf, to pass message to another village/tribe or people. Hold it in your hand and walk past a person, then they know that someone has died.
bookmarknecñap̃it cei
negna
n. Bluespot mullet
Example: Photo by Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknelm̃ai
n. tree to 4 m tall, dbh 8 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #5004)
Example: This plant is used to make fishing line, perhaps moreso in the past than today. Collect young shoots form the sides of the tree, peel off the bark, soak the stem in salt water or fresh water for 1-2 weeks to ret the stems then separate the fibers, dry in the sun and use to make string for fishing. The leaves are used for feeding pigs.
bookmarknemdaj
n. Little spinefoot, scribbled rabbitfish
Example: Photo by Kathleen Kresner-Reyes / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknepek cat
netcetec
n. trees, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3473)
Example: 1. This species is excellent for firewood as it gives off less smoke than other types of wood. 2. The wood is good for making roof rafters on which to tie thatch. 3. Use this for planting pole, for taro, cane, and kava.
bookmarkneteukin
n. the name of a poisonous plant
bookmarknetumtehi
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarknetvo
n. a species of fruit
bookmarknijeuc nijeuc
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarkninja
nipjid aiyu
n. orange
bookmarknipʧinite
nitit a nelgo waj
nitsichäi
n. Hornstedtia sp.
Example: Subterranean part: cold maceration, taken internally against "cancer", diabetes, or as tonic
bookmarkniña
[niŋa] n. shell
bookmarknohun
n. stem
bookmarknop̃oe
nowat apen
n. Striated surgeonfish
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknowigma
n. a dried or withered breadfruit tree
bookmarknugep
[nugep] n. Mackinlay’s cuckoo dove
Example: Photo by David Cook Wildlife Photography / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
bookmarknugnas iran
n. a bunch of taro
bookmarknuka
n. leaves for an oven
bookmarknupsi itai
n. corn
bookmarknupsin hudain
nyihivac
n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3263)
Example: 1. A "calendar plant". When this flowers in the bush, and people are making their gardens in that area, it means the garden is ready to harvest. 2. Firewood, calendar, and message plant – for people who live up in the forest can see this coastal plant and when it flowers it is a good time to go fishing or to move to the coastal area for a few weeks to relax. July-August. Tide is low so everything is exposed so it is a good time to fish for there, 2 months. 3. Flowers have a nice nectar, sweet, kids drink.
bookmarkpehpahai
v.n. sail inside of reef
bookmarktilaconai
n. first quarter of the moon
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