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-afafáu

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v wear a hat, cover (something)

-ahi

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v. bite, chew

-akwmakwmwi

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v gum (as one’s food)

-amemha

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v intr be sick

-aru

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v intr bathe, swim

-arukw

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v. sprout (as kava, banana, sugarcane)

-arukwakwus

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v hang, hang up, tie up

-arukwuvsini

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v var. of -rukwuvsini

-arár

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v. 1. dig (as with a spade), 2. sprout

-atipa

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v carry on one’s back, carry on a truck bed

-uiri

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adj. woody, tough, fibrous (as a yam or taro)

akutamirhi reya

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catch the hen

aramanuk

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calendar

ikɨnan

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tabu place, taboo place

imwarɨm

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exchange ground; place of exchange

kapajiko

Lutjanus lutjanus http://fishbase.org/summary/Lutjanus-lutjanus.html
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Bigeye snapper

Example: Photo by J. E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

kapajiko

Lutjanus fulviflamma http://fishbase.org/summary/Lutjanus-fulviflamma.html
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Dory snapper

Example: Photo by Andrew J. Green / Reef life Survey, License: CC-BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

kapapu

People use this plant for firewood
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n. tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3102)

Example: People use this plant for firewood

kararɨg feimanu

House posts, rafters, good for building in Tanna. Scrape stem in cup and squeeze with water into a glass to give someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem to fill a cup, mix with water, 1 liter /day for 7 days. Shark causes bleeding, maybe the person ate too much shark. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5072)

Example: House posts, rafters, good for building in Tanna. Scrape stem in cup and squeeze with water into a glass to give someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem to fill a cup, mix with water, 1 liter /day for 7 days. Shark causes bleeding, maybe the person ate too much shark. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".

kasusu

Photo by K. David Harrison, Oct. 2016
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n. fungus type

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Oct. 2016

katia

katia
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grater for taro

katiham

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traditional dance

kaupa

kaupa
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n gate (made of bamboo)

kesiesi

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n crab (fresh water)

koiameta

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n social moiety

koniere

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n. tree, h= 15 m. young brown elongate fruits with a greyish green fleshy calyx. Thick branchlets with the leaves at the top. White latex. For the locals it is the main kind of burckella obovata (round fruits). (collection: Laurence Ramon #332)

Kopintata

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tribe name

kopra

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n. copra

(Bislama) kopra

kosu

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condom

krefi

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kind of breadfruit, produces a long breadfruit that tastes very good

Example: The stem of the tree is good for making a canoe

kuanmasekum

1. The inner skin of the stem is used to weave grass skirts and nambas. 2. Pidgeons eat the fruits.
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n. shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4233)

Example: 1. The inner skin of the stem is used to weave grass skirts and nambas. 2. Pidgeons eat the fruits.

kuayei apusan

Kyphosus vaigiensis http://fishbase.org/summary/Kyphosus-vaigiensis.html
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Brassy chub, lowfin drummer

Example: Photo by Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

kurgen

Epinephelus tauvina http://fishbase.org/summary/Epinephelus-tauvina.html
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Greasy grouper (reef fish)

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

kwanafereiag

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n. face painting mud

kwanareiaku

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n. kind of taro

kwanasuaprana

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n. kind of fungus, brown color when old or white color when young, can be fried and eaten

kwankwaikwai

Finschia chloroxantha
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5036)

kwanpapa

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n. fruit of the niemis tree

kwarua

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n door, doorway

kwatavirua

When  this plant grows to 2m, peel bark and put it in salt water to rett the stem. To do this, tie the stems in bundles and cover the bundle with a stone in the sea. After one week, rett the stem by pulling out the strong fibers and discarding the rest. Dry the fibers, then make a grass skirt from this. The leaves can be crushed and used as a styptic for wounds to stop bleeding.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5135)

Example: When this plant grows to 2m, peel bark and put it in salt water to rett the stem. To do this, tie the stems in bundles and cover the bundle with a stone in the sea. After one week, rett the stem by pulling out the strong fibers and discarding the rest. Dry the fibers, then make a grass skirt from this. The leaves can be crushed and used as a styptic for wounds to stop bleeding.

kwatmár

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wasp

kwekao

Gehyra oceanica https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/101304-Gehyra-oceanica
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Pacific Dtella

Example: via inaturalist.org

kwera

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n my brain

kwopun

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place or destination

makhum

Scarus spinus http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-spinus.html
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Greensnout parrotfish

Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

makhum

Scarus prasiognathos http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-prasiognathos.html
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Singapore parrotfish, greenthroat parrotfish

Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

mamataring

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listening

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

maris-maris

People toss sticks made from the stem of this plant at flying fox to tear their wing so they can’t fly and are caught.
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[marəs marəs] n. understory tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3133)

Example: People toss sticks made from the stem of this plant at flying fox to tear their wing so they can’t fly and are caught.

moripako

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n. kind of wild yam (see namhu)

nafara

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kind of pandanus

Example: The green leaves are used to weave mats, baskets and hats. The stem is used for making houseposts and also burned as firewood. The ripe fruits are cut open and the seeds are removed and eaten—they taste like coconut and are eaten fresh

nahpao

Balistoides viridescens http://fishbase.org/summary/Balistoides-viridescens.html
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Titan triggerfish

Example: Photo by Leonard Low, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

naprapames

1. When making a ground oven (nimum), these leaves are heaped on the stones, before the oven is buried with dirt.
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n. terrestrial; leaves up to ca. 2 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2611)

Example: 1. When making a ground oven (nimum), these leaves are heaped on the stones, before the oven is buried with dirt.

napse-

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cousin (mother’s brother’s child)

napuei mia

napuei mia
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n. dry coconut

napurien

napurien
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play, game

napɨrapire

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n. kind of grass

narami kari

1. Fowl sometimes lay their eggs in the center of these ferns.
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n. 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.

nari-noien

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n. something to do

nathan

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. tree; false nutmeg

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

nesɨn

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when?

nikouirum

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n. coconut spathe

nimeiei

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n. fern used as chicken feed

Ningkaris

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Mountain beetwen yatukwei and High hill

nkhaourakou

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. shrub, 6 m tall

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

numben

The leaf of this plant is added to soup in which meat is being cooked, for example, turtle meat, which has a strong smell. If this leaf is placed in the pot, it will make the soup smell better
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n. subshrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3161)

Example: The leaf of this plant is added to soup in which meat is being cooked, for example, turtle meat, which has a strong smell. If this leaf is placed in the pot, it will make the soup smell better

nurɨgri

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n. kind of tree, wood used for pierced ear and septum ornaments

nuwak

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n my thigh

Nuwekur

Nuwekur
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Nuwekur village, near Iatukwei

nɨkafwerug

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n. kind of plant, leaf used for penis wrapper

nɨkoraku

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n. small plant with variegated leaves

nɨmu kwatia tasiapen

Pterocaesio tile http://fishbase.org/summary/Pterocaesio-tile.html
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Dark-Banded Fusilier, Neon Fusilier

Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

nɨpai

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kind of fish trap

nɨparɨm

In times of disaster, can roast root in fire like sweet potatoe 20 min--chew the root to get the sweet tasting food and spit out fiber.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5095)

Example: In times of disaster, can roast root in fire like sweet potatoe 20 min--chew the root to get the sweet tasting food and spit out fiber.

nɨrái

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n. kind of tree with sticky fruit, fruit is not eaten by people, only by birds

parei

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West (cardinal direction)

pasuwa

Tridacna maxima https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/50589-Tridacna-maxima

Small Giant Clam

Example: via inaturalist.org

penesu

Scarus globiceps http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-globiceps.html
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Globehead parrotfish

Example: Photo by J. E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

penesu

Scarus quoyi http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-quoyi.html
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Quoy’s parrotfish

Example: Photo by zsispeo, License: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr

penesu

Scarus prasiognathos http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-prasiognathos.html
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Singapore parrotfish, greenthroat parrotfish

Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

pitupitu

pitupitu

grass hopper

punuár

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n. kind of tree with small, compound leaves, used for firewood

rawɨs

rawɨs
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[ʰrawɨs] grass skirt

rɨkarɨk

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n. inalienable kava sprout, transplanted from one garden to another

suatuk

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exchange relation

suatuk

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exchange relation, exchange road

takiew se tasi

Goniobranchus coi https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/481507-Goniobranchus-coi
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Coi’s Goniobranchus

Example: Photo by eschlogl / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

tamekinɨsui yarema

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n. footprint

tannapen

To increase milk flow in a nursing mother, take a double handful of leaves and put in 1 liter of water. Drink one bottle twice a day for three days.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5047)

Example: To increase milk flow in a nursing mother, take a double handful of leaves and put in 1 liter of water. Drink one bottle twice a day for three days.

tapatou

Acanthocybium solandri http://fishbase.org/summary/Acanthocybium-solandri.html
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Wahoo

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

tara

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father

tonu

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n fish species: possibly a type of grouper

trakwakwi

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tomorrow

tɨnari

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cloth

whailu

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n. kind of yam, edible, yellow or white color, from New Caledonia

yaknamapri

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I will sleep soon

(Bislama) mi stap silip nao.

yangawhir ~ yaniawir

Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0
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Roundjaw bonefish

Example: Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0

yapha

Naso unicornis http://fishbase.org/summary/Naso-unicornis.html
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Bluespine unicornfish

Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

yesu

Parupeneus heptacanthus http://fishbase.org/summary/Parupeneus-heptacanthus.html
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Cinnabar goatfish

Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

yesu

Upeneus taeniopterus http://fishbase.org/summary/Upeneus-taeniopterus.html
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Finstripe goatfish

Example: Photo by Robert Pillon / Fishbase, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia