-afa
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cooked, done, ready to be eaten, ripe (can be used in the imperative, for example speaking to food, "be ready!"
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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-akeikei
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1. must, have to, be obligated to, ought; 2. ask, request; 3. insist on, continue (in doing), demand, do anyway, proceed against advice, strive, try hard
Speaker: Martial wahe
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-akw(i)
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1. strike, hit (especially with a stone or rifle), have an effect on something; 2. tie together, bring together
Speaker: Martial wahe
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finger
iaku-iaku
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[jaku jaku]
n.
kind of herb (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3165)
Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kaipaip sei kuekau
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sprawling herb, with erect flowering stems (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3237)
Example: Children take the inflorescence of this plant and use it to find and poke lizards hiding in the bush. For treatment of an unspecified spiritual sickness, chew 2, 2" pieces of the stem to get rid of the sickness, spitting the material on the hair and body of an ill person; use only 1 time.
Scientific name: Cyathula prostrata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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karuarua
kiswup, kɨsɨp
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[kisɨp]
n.
conch shell; type of seashell (triton shell) can be sounded to summon people for a meeting
Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kotauiruan
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subshrub, 75 cm tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3236)
Example: This plant is used as a source of fiber to make grass skirts. Gather a lot of stems, place in seawater with a stone on top (the process known as retting) for one month. Collect the stems, pull off the bark and remove the fiber, allowing it to dry in the sun until it bleaches white, when it can be woven into the traditional grass skirt.
Scientific name: Urena lobata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kouwehew
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kind of shell, with smooth black color
Example: edible shell, boiled in the saucepan or roasted in the fire
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kwanei
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5115)
Example: Hardwood, for carving. For building house posts. If wood is dry when it is wet outside, this wood will light and burn faster than any other wood (due to high sap content).
Scientific name: Guettarda speciosa, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kwaniere
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1. Garcinia pancheri, 2. kind of introduced fruit tree with elongated, green fruit
Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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mantocary
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kind of cassava, has yellow flesh—the name means “yellow curry”
Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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naker
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[nakɨr]
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terrestrial fern, 1 to 1.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3027)
Example: Food: Young leaves are eaten cooked.
Scientific name: Ptisana smithii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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namatamai
nanes
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1. kind of tree, 2. small plant with red flowers (var. of nanas), the sap is dangerous it can cause a rash
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nanumi nɨkafai
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5154)
Example: To treat broken bones combine two handfuls of Commelina diffusa and 2 handfuls of this whole Orchid. Then take half of that and rub on broken bone area (e.g. leg). The Kastom doctor will then make a cut with a sharp piece of bamboo along break. The bone is then wrapped with the leaf of this orchid, then take the pother half of the mixture, mash in water 1.5 liter, and give person to drink. This treatment will help join bone back together.
Scientific name: Malaxis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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napuer
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3013)
Example: Hunting: Birds are attracted to this plant for their fruits. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt these birds.
Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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narak
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kind of yam, has tubers with two colors in the same root—both white and red and is sweet and soft
Example: Is a special yam for paying dowry
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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narami kari
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epiphyte; prominent ridge on abaxial surface of costa. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2614)
Example: 1. Fowl sometimes lay their eggs in the center of these ferns.
Scientific name: Asplenium australasicum, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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neknapus
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sparsely branched shrub, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3081)
Example: The leaves of this plant are warmed over a fire and put warm on the legs of a person who is cold or has a headache, such as from a fever that comes with the flu. See 3076 for additional comments on this technique.
Scientific name: Acalypha wilkesiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nemreken
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type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5018)
Example: For counting, for example tallying the number of people invited for kava or food, each person can be represented by a pinnae. When done marking each pinnae for a person, take off the rest. Then you’ll be able to return and see the number of pinnae remaining on the rachis if how many people will be coming. Used to make a bird trap. Bleed sap from cut on stem of this tree onto fibers of Pneumatopteris sp. (MB 5018) The fern fibers are rolled into a ball and used to soak up the sap from the tree. Then remove the fern fibers once you have a ball of sap. These fibers are then discarded. The
Scientific name: Pneumatopteris, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nikinapwes
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5032)
Example: To treat anemia, known as low blood, take a double handful of leaves, squeeze into 1 cup water, and drink 1 cup daily 5 days. Leaves also fed to pigs to help them grow faster.
Scientific name: Acalypha grandis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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noufoua
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[nəfua]
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tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3010)
Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of a house. It is considered one of the finest woods for this purpose. Ornamental: Branches of this tree are used to create carvings.
Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nurap
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5167)
Example: For toothaches, take inner bark, scrape it into water and use to rinse mouth--pain will go away. Stem for house posts. Birds like this flower.
Scientific name: Syzygium kajewskii, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nuviavia
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decorative plant (Crinum sp.), Bislama: white lily. A kind of wild taro, eaten.
(Bislama) nuviavia
Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nɨsikɨr
pasuwa
penesu
pepheer
Ramasikin
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hold or take something
Example: young people hold chew kava to drink. or old people walking with walking stick
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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ring
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5022)
Example: The hard stem is used for house posts. To protect food in the earth oven from burning, use the peeled bark in large pieces to either wrap around banana leaves or as an extra layer.
Scientific name: Trema cannabina, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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riuwiru
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tree growing in house area in village (collection: Michael J. Balick #4719)
Example: This tree is planted by people around household areas to hold embankments and prevent soil from eroding
Scientific name: Ficus, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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takiew se tasi
tangarua
taoura ia nipeka
tapatou
tasiapen
taupar taupar
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5098)
Example: Leaves used to cover laplap and wrap and boil in pot. Kids use papaya petiole to shoot seeds -- game of hide and seen called chung.
Scientific name: Canna indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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trimian
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liana growing in disturbed forest area along kwataren kastom road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3096)
Example: People use this plant to soften the hair, by taking the roots and stem, pounding them with a stone, and squeezing the juice into the hair--it is said to make it very soft.
Scientific name: Nothocnide repanda, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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ume
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Whitemargin Unicornfish, Ringtail Unicornfish
Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
Scientific name: Naso annulatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe
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yesu
yesu