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acesare
adj. sun just down
bookmarkapuhod pan nathut an nadiat
n. near morning
bookmarkdaute
n. kind of banana
bookmarkehgin
adj. afar
bookmarkevehel
n. light winds
bookmarkincai er hegaig
n. a tree for food; a fruit tree
bookmarkinhamesei
n. the name of a native plant
bookmarkinhujah
n. kind of tree
bookmarkinlapnan
n. a plantation
bookmarkinlepei u inpoded
inlidija
n. summer, autumn
bookmarkinmaan
n. old coconut leaves
bookmarkinm̃aka
n. well branched tree, 12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4022)
Example: 1. A durable hardwood that is used for house posts. 2. The wood is used to fashion cross members that affix outriggers to the body of the canoe. 3. 4-5 inch diameter saplings are used to create a track in the forest that larger logs can roll down.
bookmarkinp̃a
inrowodamya
n. shrub to 1. 5 m tall, leaves green with red stripes (collection: Michael J. Balick #4978)
Example: The leaves are used to wrap fish, lap-lap for cooking in the earth oven. Boil the leaves as a medicine for women with excessive menstrual bleeding. Cut 2 leaves and boil in 2 liters of water, cool and drink 1 cup daily for 3 days. This is said to slow the menstrual bleeding. Local name "Amya" means menstruation.
bookmarkintesyanam̃a
intijgancedo
n. prostrate herb growing on ground in open or partly shaded area next to banana tree. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3207)
Example: 1. The plant is named after a "rat"s ear.’ Eat 4 fresh leaves every morning to clear the brain and help remember things. 2. This plant is an indicator of rich soil--a good place for growing vegetables. 3. Very useful plant, food and medicine. Name means rat ear. Take 5 leaves, wrap in INROWOD (Cordyline fruticosa) and cook for 15 minutes, remove it hot (be sure you do not burn it) squeeze out 1 tablespoon and give to baby to drink to treat a flu. 1x morning for 5 days.
bookmarkintisianibul
n. rose
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
bookmarkitaho
adj. inland
bookmarkiñec
[iŋec] n. Mystery Island
bookmarkkaradakoal
n. a native pudding made of taro, coconut milk, etc.
bookmarkkopilkopil
n. kind of taro
bookmarknagedauyag
n. kind of taro
bookmarknahaijcai
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknahanemek
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarknaheñ
nalauba
[nalauba] n. Emerald Dove
Example: Photo by Dr. Raju Kasambe/Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
bookmarknamou
nanad op̃a
n. tree, 4-5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3542)
Example: Some people use the dried leaves of this plant when there is no tobacco. Roll the leaves and smoke them. This is a good plant to lay under as a shade along the coast. Good firewood. The leaves are used with other leaves as part of a ceremony to calm the sea.* Burn leaves in a special place and toss ashes in the sea – sea will be calm.* When you are paddling to another island. Carry them with you and toss in sea as you go. Also goes with fasting and cleansing when traveling in this way.
bookmarknarahcai
n. a table made of reeds, for drying arrowroot, etc.
bookmarknaridjai o un
n. east
bookmarknasanma
n. the juice of the breadfruit tree
bookmarknasiaij
n. a native plant, the leaves of which are used as cabbage
bookmarknateng
natereuc
n. kind of banana
bookmarknatuh
n. a sweet-smelling plant
bookmarknecemas moso
n. terrestrial plant on forest floor, growing in disturbed forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3483)
Example: 1. This is a "message plant" that signifies that there has been a death. The person holds it or puts it on their head, goes to another person’s house and hands it to the person they wish to convey the message to, without saying anything and that person knows that someone has died. It can also be handed to that person. The person receiving the message then asks "who" and is told the deceased person’s name. 2. Use it to produce more fog on top of mountain – use w/ another plant, nap̃at (GMP 3268) – put these in a hole on the sacred stone to ferment as it fills with water. After it rots there will be a lot of fog. Name of stone = NAEMOSO. So the fog helps keep the plants moist and growing well.
bookmarknecrakiti
n. herb, growing at edge of garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3601)
Example: This is a "calendar plant". In winter months, if a person sees this plant in flower it is confirmation that the sea turtle has plenty of grease or fat and is good to eat. As a medicine for a cut, collect some leaves, mash them and squeeze the juice on a cut or sore on the body. Do this treatment 3x daily until the sore dries up or the cut heals.
bookmarknedelat
neducai inhujid
n. kind of tree
bookmarknefilitikgan
n. kind of taro
bookmarknejev
nelnjen natimi
nemtanla
n. herb to 1 m, flowers yellow. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4892)
Example: If a person is coming to a "new" village, e.g. not their own, and they have a branch in their hand, it means that they are coming in peace and not trying to harm anyone else in the new village. Or if they are asking for something that might be found in the new village, they hold the branch of this species and pass it to a person from that village so they will accept you.
bookmarknepahas
n. kind of tree
bookmarknerumut
n. a hollow place in taro
bookmarknetehmu
n. kind of banana
bookmarknetet
n. the name of a tree
bookmarknihkanwai
n. brook
bookmarknijeuc nijeuc
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknipyipei
n. kind of plant, grass, or fern
bookmarknisʧi
nitetan
n. a fern
bookmarknitidae
nohoan
n. fruit; also "nohwan"
bookmarknokoko
n. tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3540)
Example: The straight trunk of this tree is used to make canoes. The black seed in the fruit is used to make necklaces. The inner bark is peeled and crushed in sea water and rubbed in the hair to make it curly. People do this treatment every day to make long hair curl like a rasta.
bookmarknomyatamain
n. Thumbprint emperor, blackspot emperor
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarknuarin
n. plat (a map, drawn to scale, showing divisions in a piece of land)
bookmarknumu yehec
nuput, noho’ich
n. cultivated anthropogenic landscape (lawn and planted trees). (collection: Keith E. Clancy #6655)
bookmarknässäi
weite
adj. perennial (applied to water); also "etweite", "inweite"
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