ahtowan
v.
to weed
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 68
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apig
adj.
black
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 61
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apitak
v.n.
go after
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 154
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ared numta
v.
to plant taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 62
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eceijo
n.
tide flowing a little, begun to flow
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 72
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ehnat aiek
v.n.
go before
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 154
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eti laulau
adv.
soon
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 92
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inceimu
n.
shrub to treelet, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3265)
Example: Used as a leaf compost for planting taro, layered on the bottom of the hole and covering the taro as well.
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incowos yag
n.
plant used to make ceremonial head wreath and neck garland
Speaker: Romario Yaufati
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indawoc
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[indawoɣ]
n.
Long-tailed jaeger
Example: Photo by jacksnipe1990/Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr
Scientific name: Stercorarius longicaudus, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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inhulec ~ iɣleɣ
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n.
Yellow-throated White-eye
Example: Illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Scientific name: Zosterops metcalfii, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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injivij
injupki upni
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phr.
Good afternoon. (greeting around noon time, 12 o’clock to 3 o’clock, afternoon)
Speaker: Ruben Nerian
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inlepei u inpoded
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epiphyte on a fallen branch, growing in rain forest on the mountain slope. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3287)
Scientific name: Huperzia phlegmaria, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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inlopotjap
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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.
Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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inmahe
n.
the pandanus leaf
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 170
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inmoijeuv ahcil
n.
false star
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113
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inmowad
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vine to 40 cm, flowers blue (collection: Michael J. Balick #4949)
Example: To heal cuts, select a piece of the larger part of the stem (woody) cut a 6 inch piece and blow on one end; the sap comes o ut on the other end and this can be used to cover the wound. As a pig feed, people collect the stems and leaves and feed these to the pigs.
Scientific name: Ipomoea, Speaker: Tony Keith
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intaig um has
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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intesyanyac
intijgancedo
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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.
Scientific name: Centella asiatica, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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intinan mese
n.
dry land planted
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89
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intoppa
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kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4782)
Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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intowosjei
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terrestrial orchid, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3708)
Scientific name: Calanthe chrysantha, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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kidie ~ kithi
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shrub, 1. 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3205)
Example: 1. Plant this tree at each of the four corners of a fence to keep your pigs in and protect against a type of bad luck. If a man sleeps with his wife who is having her period, and then the man goes to see the pig, the pig will suffer and not grow strong and not have many piglets. So the presence of this plant controls against bad luck that others can bring to your pig farm. 2. This is an ornamental plant grown around the home. Sticks of this plant are planted around the outside of the garden and grow to create a fence, to protect the crops and keep them healthy, as well as protect the crops from people that are not cleansed in the ritual way. 3. This species is also planted around the house to add color and is very decorative in general. 4. For fertilizer in taro holes for water taro. For baly(?) taro and water taro, lay these flat on the surface of the charcoal, then lay the food – taro, cassava – on this and cover with another layer, add hot stones and cook. 4. Pig food, goat food.
Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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ma
adj.
ripe, as fruit; healed, as a wound; also "mah"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 92
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maprum
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grass to 1 m, flowers purplish (collection: Michael J. Balick #4935)
Example: This grass is planted to protect a person’s farm from being affected by evil spirits.
Scientific name: Chrysopogon aciculatus, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nadoni
n.
prickly shrub
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 184
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nafakaka
n.
a blossom; the spathe of a coconut used as light; also "nafaketa"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 94
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naha
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herb to 1 m, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #5003)
Example: The leaves are used to wrap fish for cooking in an open fire. If you eat a bad fish and begin to feel the effects of it a few hours later, such as with Ciguatera illness, cut the base of the stem of this plant and let the sap drip into a half coconut shell with coconut water in it, drink the shell and it will make the person vomit out the bad food. It does not taste good but is very effective in making a person vomit as it contains a toxic compound.
Scientific name: Crinum asiaticum, Speaker: Tony Keith
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nahod
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young vine, still erect (1 m tall) (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3551)
Example: The leaves of this plant are used as a soap. People collect the leaves and mash them and dip in fresh water and use the water to wash their bodies.
Scientific name: Colubrina asiatica, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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naipumnyu
n.
kind of plant, grass, or fern
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120
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nalvi pece
n.
isle, island
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 160
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namaj
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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namlau
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3490)
Example: 1. The larger stems of this plant can be used to build houses, for rafters. 2. It is also a good source of firewood. 3. Ancestors, before go to chief’s canal and want to talk about a complicated issue – a person would cut a branch and bring it to the sea and tap the water surface and would say what he wants, ask that he would want that issue to be solved and that others would follow his ideas and then go back to the meeting place and take stick, keep wind at his back, moving stick in all directions and then he will convince the people of his ideas. This is done by the chief’s spokesman. Helps convince the opposition. Helps keep power in hands of parent(??) chief rather than subchiefs who might have other ideas.
Scientific name: Glochidion ramiflorum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nam̃caca
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vine climbing in understory, growing in rainforest along river. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4057)
Example: 1. This plant is named in relation to a winged fish. The leaves are rough and resemble the body the fish. 2. The leaves of this plant are used to wrap grated taro or manioc. After it is fastened with rope and boiled or baked.
Scientific name: Joinvillea plicata, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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napaeicei
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epiphytic fern on fallen log, growing in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4097)
Example: 1. The name means "wood cover", alluding to the habit of this plant. It grows only on the bark of trees.
Scientific name: Davallia pusilla, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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napau
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
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napua
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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nara
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
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narasincai
n.
bark
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 127
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nateng
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tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4125)
Example: 1. The fruits can be cooked with coconut milk and consumed. 2. Green leaves can be used to wrap fish, when they are cooked in a fire.
Scientific name: Ficus smithii, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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natu
n.
grass; little bushes
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 97
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nauras
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
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nauyerop̃
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tree, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3487)
Example: 1. To cure spirit sickness of the niteitau. Use plants that also end with "au" : niditau, intoutau, naoyerop. Go to the top of the plant to get the soft leaves of the plants niditau, intoutau, naoyerop, also take the bark. The person making the medicine should be holding the these leaves with a piece of nelmaha. Nelmaha means go away. The sick person chews the leaves and bark and swallows the juice spitting out the fiber into the nelmaha the medicine maker is holding. The medicine person then takes the spit out fiber in the nalmaha leaf and throws it into the sea in front of the village. 2. Edible fruits, when ripe or green, does not taste when green, but sweet when ripe. 3a. Leaves (young) are edible, for example wrap around coconut meat and eat or cook with island cabbage and other leaves, boil and add coconut milk and eat. 3b. The young leaves are edible, after boiling for 5 minutes. A piece of coconut and a pinch of salt is wrapped in the leaves and eaten. The mature leaves are used to wrap food such as pig or cow meat and cooked in an earth oven. Tie this bundle with a piece of Pandanus fiber to secure it before putting in the earth oven. 4. During big feast, use this a lot – circumcison or wedding feast, harvest leaves and wrap around meat and bake on earth oven – sometimes we cut down a whole tree to gather leaves. 5. To make men’s custom belt – split stem, peel outer bark off to take inner bark and peel it, tear end to make strap that can be tied. Dry in sun but not direct sunlight. 6. Older large trunks were burned by ancestors to keep fire going – did not need matches (lefre(?) matches) because embers would stay for days and when make a fire add smaller branches to make a flame.
Scientific name: Ficus scabra, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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neaig
n.
the kernel of a coconut; the coconut tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98
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neaig ahi
n.
a white coconut
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118
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neaig auyag
n.
kind of palm
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118
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necñanpaeñ
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terrestrial fern, growing in dense rainforest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4094)
Example: 1. The name describes a sea bird, whose long legs are similar in shape to the stipe of this fern.
Scientific name: Tectaria crenata, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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necñopod
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shrub, somewhat scandent (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3443)
Scientific name: Acalypha grandis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nedouyatmas
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small, sparsely branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3463)
Example: This is considered a sacred plant. People do not use this plant as it is considered "of the devil."
Scientific name: Delarbrea paradoxa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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negna
negrecreipek
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herb, growing in partially drained marsh and along weedy areas of road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3600)
Example: This plant is used as an ornament in the hair.
Scientific name: Palhinhaea cernua, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nehno
n.
a species of poisonous tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98
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neiang mesei
nelas
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tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4140)
Scientific name: Pittosporum aneityense, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nemla
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kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4757)
Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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neperahapu
n.
north-north-west wind
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100
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nepiloan
n.
tender shoots
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 100
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neuled
n.
kind of sugarcane
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120
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nidupau
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
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niegred
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tree to 4 m, dbh 10 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4936)
Example: The leaves are used to cover earth ovens when cooking big fish or taro.
Scientific name: Cleidion neoebudicum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nigired
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tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3623)
Example: People use the leaf of this plant to layer on the bottom of the earth oven, and then pile food such as manioc or taro on it, then pile leaves of this species on top of that. This will help insulate the food from the high heat of the earth oven and allow it to cook better. Used especailly in feasts like weddings. Women usually collect this leaf and is used to cover very large earth ovens.
Scientific name: Cleidion javanicum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nijcel
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tree, 7-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3587)
Example: 1. 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. 2. Use leaves to wrap fresh water prawns and fresh water fish and cook them on charcoal. Use as a cup by making funnel out of leaf and drink from it. 3. Used for unspecified ritual activities.
Scientific name: Dillenia biflora, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nirid u numu
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terrestrial fern on forest floor, growing in disturbed forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3482)
Example: People who go fishing take this plant along with other unspecified leaves, crush them and rub them on the fishing line that the person is using. This is said to attract more fish to the bait. It is also a "message plant" to be put in a person’s hat when they come back from fishing and then people know that they caught fish. Local name means "fish gill." For performing a weather magic ritual to produce fog, this plant is fermented along with another plant (nap̃at) in a hole in a sacred stone (called "Naemoso") at a secret location on Aneityum.
Scientific name: Schizaea dichotoma, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nobom
noho
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kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4793)
Scientific name: Ipomoea pes-caprae, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nop̃ou
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tree. Found in the village, usually grows in the hills. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #16)
Example: 1. Lot of oil in the heartwood so it is good to start a fire, split it into small strips and you can light it for a fire. 2. Calendar plant – when the fruits ripen people know that this is the best season to eat the big hermit crab – meaning that they are fat.
Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nouras
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kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4774)
Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nuhujcei
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liana, climbing on Garcinia tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3585)
Example: 1. When the stems of this plant are older, and it is a vine, is used to tie thatch on roof rafters as it bends well. 2. Burned leaves and rubbed on fishing line and spear to increase catch – used with other unspecified leaves, that are forageable. When you are fishing and if you set a basket or mat it means danger and you have to return to shore – the spirit is telling you that it is enough fishing.
Scientific name: Durandea pentagyna, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nähäwanatschill
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
Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 441
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pospos
n.
a small red berry used as beads
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 107
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tatau