kapri iapri
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5110)
Example: Leaves fed to pig. Women string the seeds to make necklaces to sell. If the libido of a male is too strong ("bamboo is too strong"), mix juice from leaves and mix with 1/2 L water and drink 2 cups 1 day.
Scientific name: Leucaena leucocephala, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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karuapeï
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shrub. fruits and flowers directly on the stem or short inflorences. mature fruits white (about 1,5 cm l). Leaves with short petioles (about 1 to 3 cm) (collection: Laurence Ramon #331)
Scientific name: Cyrtandra sp2, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kawitnawit
kenasenas
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epiphytic orchid on tree, growing in dense cloud forest. flowers white. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4219)
Example: The yellow seeds are used are used to paint faces. The use is currently practiced by children and thought to be an archaic use.
Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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konapit
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5070)
Example: To get strength back in your body, take a double handful of leaves in 1/2 of 1.5 L bottle, drink all at once. Children take the seeds of this plant and put them together in a ball to play with.
Scientific name: Hanslia ormocarpoides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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konianaker
konkamun
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large herb, 0.5 to 1 m tall; adlay millet
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Coix lacryma-jobi, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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konkriakey
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tree, h = 8 m (collection: Laurence Ramon #320)
Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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konuwak arwerew
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Leopard hind, leopard grouper (deep sea)
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
Scientific name: Cephalopholis leopardus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe
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kwankwesi
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kind of taro, has white flesh; this is the common taro
Example: Good for eating
Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kwanwekɨr
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5041)
Example: Flower attracts flying fox--hunters know this. Nut is edible, eat green, split fruit to obtain it. Raw, can also fry it in oil and dry in sun, keep 1-2 week to eat. Thios is an important food for the cyclone season. People prepare it when they know the cyclone is coming (emergency food).
Scientific name: Barringtonia racemosa, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kwatɨpunaruveruv
mantopani charley
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kind of cassava. When the soil is good, this variety produces the largest root. A man named Charley got it from Port-Vila and brought it to Port Resolution and it is named for him
Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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mantopani mariyango
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kind of cassava, from Port-Vila
Example: The root of this variety is made into lap-lap used in certain ceremonies
Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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mark apamus
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Mackinlay’s Cuckoo-Dove
Example: Photo by David Cook Wildlife Photography / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Scientific name: Macropygia mackinlayi, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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murup
nahpao akwes
namari
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5084)
Example: Planted for shade near a village or near houses. Shade tree.
Scientific name: Acacia simplex, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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namás
nanɨs
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5150)
Example: Poisonous plant. Planted near cultivated garden to kill virus in soil.
Scientific name: Volkameria inermis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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napati
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5156)
Example: This is female type. MJB 5068 is male type. When person has diarrhea with blood (dysentry) take a double handful of leaves and mash them in 2 liter water, boil, drink warm 1 cup 3x day until the condition goes away. Stem used for roofing- attac hes to the rafters so thatching and leaves can be attached.
Scientific name: Polyscias schmidii, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nare
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5169)
Example: Used during shaving ceremonies leaves mixed with Euodia and mashed coconut and used to oil the body of young man being shaved and the person doing the ceremony. Stems when mashed are very fragrant and also tied around head. Ceremony for young lady who has first menstruation, she goes away with her family, when she comes back cover her with same mixture of plants to make her nice. During her first period she is separated from her family. Ancient people, when needed water, take stem, mash 4-6 pieces and squeeze into coconut shell and drink it. So squeeze the stems together after mashing them alo
Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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naskou
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5071)
Example: Stem used for stick for Toka dance, due to it’s "hook" shape. . Axe handles and bows are made from this tree, very hard wood.
Scientific name: Croton insularis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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natgamera
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petrophyte, growing in deep shade (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3115)
Scientific name: (moss), Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nawan
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5144)
Example: Sawn timber. Very hard wood. Fruit bats enjoy eating from this tree. Hunters know this and will go there to hunt.
Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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neiapsan
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5146)
Example: Stem used to make bow. Stem for ax handle.
Scientific name: Allophylus cobbe, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nekaui reia
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tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3026)
Example: Hunting: The wood of the tree is used, as the body of a spear, to hunt fishes and turtles. To fashion the spear, an appropriate length of wood is cut, debarked, heated (to straighten) and then topped with an iron point. Note: Iaruman is the name of the male form of this plant. Prane is the female form of this plant.
Scientific name: Rapanea amischocarpa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nekava kava
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liana growing on trunk of hedycarya dorstenioides, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3004)
Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are attracted to this plant for their red fruits. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the flying fox.
Scientific name: Piper austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nemrapep
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epiphyte growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2991)
Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are attracted to this plant for their flowers. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the flying fox.
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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noukuanei
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tree with edible fruits
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Terminalia catappa, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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noukwetao
nuckuck
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type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5064)
Example: To treat burns, take 8 tips of this fern, chew it and put on as a poutltice on burn itself, leaving it for 2 days. This will dry the sore faster and heal it faster.
Scientific name: Pyrrosia lanceolata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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parangi pshir
pepher pitew sarariman
phuma phisir
ring
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tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3239)
Example: This is a toxic plant for cows. When they eat it, they die. But the bark can be used to cover food for cooking--cover taro, cassava and other tubers with the leaves when they are being cooked on the fire. The leaves are not toxic to people--only cows.
Scientific name: Parasponia andersonii, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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tehmian
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shrub, 3-3.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3245)
Example: Children eat the ripe fruits of this plant. If a person has a sore, mash the leaves and put it on the sore to heal it. To ease delivery of a child, squeeze juice from many leaves into a 1.5 l bottle and drink all at once. This will facilitate delivery.
Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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tikinau ~ talenau
tui-tui
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shrub, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3085)
Example: The leaves of this plant are used to cover the hot stone ovens when cooking lap-lap. The ripe fruit is used to burn as a lap. Take the seeds, impale on the fiber in the middle of a coconut leaf pinnae and light, holding the slender stick and lighting a person’s way.
Scientific name: Ricinus communis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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tukraus
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unbranched tree, growing next to Ianarawia ("high hill") settlement (village of Philip Wahe). (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3153)
Example: The leaves of this plant are used by women to make grass skirts. Slice the leaf lengthwise, fold or roll them up, put to dry in sun until it becomes white. At that point it is used to make the grass skirt.
Scientific name: Dracaena sp., Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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tumien
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small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2984)
Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.
Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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tɨpatɨpa
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a type of lobster: Caledonian mitten lobster, a.k.a. slipper lobster (Parribacus caledonicus)
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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yangawhir ~ yaniawir