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ahwai lelcai
v. to plant weeds; to make a wilderness or a waste
bookmarkcubuj cubuj
n. Lattice soldierfish, violet soldierfish
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkehmehma
adj. healed, applied to wounds; ripe; yellow
bookmarkehteleceinayi
n. full moon
bookmarkigcahi
n. landward
bookmarkigcaijai
n. a place up or eastward
bookmarkigcapok
n. seaward
bookmarkincai upunupun
n. bramble
bookmarkindroumu
ingaije
n. kind of tree
bookmarkinhujac
inhuterau
n. a rainbow
bookmarkinlapnan
n. a plantation
bookmarkinlopotjap
n. shrub to 1 m, fruits green. Secondary forest. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4897)
Example: The leaves are used for compost in the taro patch. Dig a hole, line it with the leaves of this species, cove with earth and plant taro. The leaves of this species are used to cover earth ovens.
bookmarkinmahe
n. the pandanus leaf
bookmarkinmal ahapol
n. a group of cultivations
bookmarkinman anjap
n. sea bird
bookmarkinpakanhas
inpece
n. tree to 15 m, dbh 50 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4918)
Example: The fruits of this tree are collected, mixed with ground coconut, boiled in water and the oil collected. The resulting oil is used medicinally, put on the skin for any condition to promote healing. Apply once a day until the condition resolves. Also can be used to treat head lice. Add the oil mixture to the hair, massage in, keep the hair dry for a day, then wash. Use once daily for 3 days.
bookmarkintal yag
n. kind of taro
bookmarkintiklancai
n. sprig
bookmarkinvid
n. two days ago or two days hence
bookmarkkava
n. a plant from which an intoxicating drink is prepared
bookmarknagai
n. the name of a tree with fruit like almonds
bookmarknahed u paralecei
nahraren nepig
n. dawn of day
bookmarknajañ
namrop̃om
n. tree, 7-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3582)
Example: Firewood, timber good for bush houses. Calendar plant – when it is in flower, the old people know it is time to harvest root crops, like yam and other vine crops, in the wild, as yet unspecified. Local names = INYAC, NOMODEJ TAL, NOMODEJ WOU, NOU LELCEI… etc.
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nanedauyan
n. Pacific yellowtail emperor
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknapoijec
n. kind of tree
bookmarknaran
n. Orange-socket surgeonfish
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknateng
nauaneig
n. a reed
bookmarknauhoig yi amud
n. break of day
bookmarknecñopod
n. shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3512)
Example: This plant is used as fertilzer to place on bottom of the taro patch in the same way as GMP #3456 to help "feed the ground" for next year. The leaves are used to wrap food. When a person is chewing kava, pile the chewed kava roots on the young leaves of this species. Also, an unspecified medicinal use.
bookmarknedjap
n. kind of tree
bookmarknefitan nedoon nedoon
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarkneijin nij
n. cliff
bookmarknejeg
n. tree, growing in forest at edge of wide tidal stream (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3535)
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.
bookmarknejev
nemeg
n. Anchor tuskfish, Orange-dotted tuskfish
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein, iNaturalist: CC BY-A-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknetohranmul
n. wind-related term; no definition provided
bookmarknihpad
n. kind of tree
bookmarknoducnas
n. a bunch of taro
bookmarknohor
[nohor] n. Woodford’s Rail
Example: Illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
bookmarknohos kaletonia
n. the New Caledonian banana
bookmarknohos u nekrei
n. the flying-fox banana
bookmarknohu itai
n. fruit trees
bookmarknom̃o
noporo pora
noposeri
n. tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3506)
Example: 1. The leaves of this plant are used in a kastom ceremony; crush the leaves and put in a head garland or on an arm band to release a pleasant odor during a kastom dance. The name of the plant is stated in a kastom song. 2. The leaf is a component for making "love magic." Crush these leaves as well as other unspecified leaves in a person’s hand while stating the name of the person you wish to fall in love with you, and it is said that they will. 3. Message plant – There are special people who compose traditional song about the person or legends, history, so the person who wants the song gives the composer this plant with other unspecified plants and the composer will have a dream that night and spirits will give song and melody and compose a song. Song is for Kastom ceremony singing while dancing.
bookmarknoweitopgat
nowigma
n. a dried or withered breadfruit tree
bookmarknuden
n. coconut leaves in the middle of the cluster, neither old nor new
bookmarknugnyiobod
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknumujced
n. terrestrial fern, 0. 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3577)
Example: Join two of the inrolled fronds together at the part where the frond is opening (the tip that is curled) such that the leaves are held together by their unfolding growing tips. Place this along the path that is frequented by a wild pig (they travel along paths) and when the pig passes these two leaves, and is chased by a hunter’s dogs, these leaves in this formation are said to sap some of the pig’s energy and thus allow the dogs to catch up with it. This was explained to Tony by another person who mentioned it as a sort of magical power possessed by this type of fern.
bookmarknupsin hudain
nuputuligighap
n. stem of coconut leaf
bookmarkom̃rag
[oŋmraŋ] n. old (man)
bookmarkse
adv. downward
bookmarktar ~ [introduced tamprem]
tatau
n. Bigeye barracuda
Example: Photo by Philippe Guillaume, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkuleme
adj. sour, applied to the water in coconuts
bookmarkupjira
n. a kind of tree
bookmarkweite
adj. perennial (applied to water); also "etweite", "inweite"
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