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araho
n. made of branches
bookmarkataka
v.n. sail without making headway
bookmarkatcatcaiyu
v. to emit sound from a bottle or coconut
bookmarkehyiyihi
v. to teaze, as cotton; also "ehyeiyihi"
bookmarkereuc
v. to shake a branch; to make fruit fall. pl: "ereucereuc"
bookmarketgei
v. to weed
bookmarkigcapok
n. seaward
bookmarkincoujahao
n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3548)
Example: The forked stick of this plant is used as a pole to hold the outrigger on a canoe. Children blow the small fruits of this plant through the hollow petioles of the papaya leaf or a hollowed bamboo stem as a game. As an aphrodisiac, two handfuls of the leaves of this species are boiled in fresh water and men drink these for 7 days. The next week they will be "strong." People cannot have sex while they are drinking this remedy, but then the next week when they have finished the treatment, they will be "very strong."
bookmarkingaije
n. kind of tree
bookmarkinhachac
inhenid
n. kind of sugarcane
bookmarkinhulec ~ iɣleɣ
[inhuleɣ] n. Yellow-throated White-eye
Example: Illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
bookmarkinligighap
n. the thick end of a coconut leaf used as a target
bookmarkinmapoded
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarkinmobolhat
inmohtan nohos
n. kind of taro
bookmarkinmouwat
inrosi
n. a clearing of bush or reeds
bookmarkintaetled
intaeñtaeñ atamaeñ
intidin
n. a crop, but not the first ripe
bookmarkintop̃ asiej
n. herb, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3221)
Example: This plant is used as a wild cabbage. The leaves are used to cover fish when baking in an earth oven and then these leaves are eaten. This is another "calendar plant" of Aneityum. When this plant flowers it means that turtles are very fat, so it is the indication that it’s time to go fishing for turtles. Also a "message plant." If a person wishes to break an agreement then the person puts the top leaves of this plant on another individual’s doorstep to indicate that the agreement is broken.
bookmarkintowosjei
inwow ityuwun
inyehec
n. mandrake
bookmarkkoliavan
n. kind of taro
bookmarkleucen
adj. ripe, as taro
bookmarknahar
n. species of pine
bookmarknahleuco yag
n. kind of taro
bookmarknala
napleañ
narakiraki
n. a whirlwind
bookmarknasieij
n. kind of tree
bookmarknatcai
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknatiñpece
nauaneig
n. a reed
bookmarknauram aged
n. kind of banana
bookmarknautahos
n. herb, 1. 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3280)
Example: A "message plant". In ancient times, this plant was used for communicating. If you go to a person who composes songs and give this to them, they will know to compose a song for you. Name means "flowers on the ground".
bookmarknekiko
n. kind of taro
bookmarknelnjen
nesgin
n. the pith
bookmarkneteukin
n. the name of a poisonous plant
bookmarknethokin
n. a poisonous plant used to stupefy fish; also "netokin"
bookmarknhujac
nidman tal
n. a top of taro
bookmarknidwunitei
niegred
nigya
n. a plant like a banana
bookmarknijcel
n. tree, 8-9 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3655)
Example: If the preferred banana leaves are not available to wrap food for cooking, then use young leaves of this species and tie taro and fish for cooking. Take 4-5 leaves and wrap the food with the leaves. Tie a rope around the food and tie them all together using any strong vine. They can then be cooked over an open fire.
bookmarknilpudou
n. herb to 50 cm, flowers yellow. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4944)
Example: As a tonic medicine, collect a full handful of leaves, boil in one liter of water until fully cooked, then drink 1 cup 3x daily, warm, to treat a person who has worked too much, who is tired, to help their stomach and to help make them strong. For children and adults. Child’s dose is 1/2 cup, 3x daily until the child feels stronger.
bookmarknipjin nalmu
nipjin nirintal
niprij
nirinat erefera ran
nisalau
n. blossoms on breadfruit
bookmarknisil
n. the center rib of the coconut leaflet; wire
bookmarkniña
[niŋa] n. shell
bookmarknohos aiyu
n. the sweet banana
bookmarknohud ucnas
n. a bunch of taro; also "nuhud ucnas"
bookmarknosocrei
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknugnas iran
n. a bunch of taro
bookmarknusjau
n. tree fern to 5 m tall, fronds 2. 5 m long (collection: Michael J. Balick #5014)
Example: Trunk of this plant is used to make food. Cut the stem in 2-3 foot pieces, peel the outer stem, put the peeled stems in an earth oven to cook for the afternoon through the night--about 12 hours. It will be ready the next day. Peel off any remaining fibrous tissue, slice the stems and eat. They are said to taste like sweet potato. The young fronds are boiled for 5 minutes and coconut milk is added, this mixture is then eaten. It is important to collect only the inrolled fronds that have not yet fully opened. The fronds are used to make temporary houses when camping in the bush. They are used to make a roof. To make a cassava grater, take 2-3 pieces of the frond stype, connect them together by piercing them on the sides with a piece of bamboo or any stick such that they are held together in parallel fashion, and use this to grate uncooked cassava to make lap-lap and to grate banana or any food that needs to be processed in this way. The thorny part of the stipe grates the food.
bookmarknähäwanatschill
n. Macaranga dioca
Example: Inner bark: bathe in cold infusion, wounds. Mix heated over fire and taken out during sunset. Healer clenches the package in his fist, then gently punches the patients left, then right knee, then his forehead and finally squeezes over his head, migraine a
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.
bookmarkpak
adj. unripe
bookmarkupreupre
n. tough; a kind of coral
bookmarkyetse
v.n. to go down
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