-atigite
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rely on, be sure of, expect that someone will do, depend on, believe in (as a supernatural being)
Speaker: Wahe Martial
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kafa
kapapu
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tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3102)
Example: People use this plant for firewood
Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kareng reng
karkarepa
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vine, to 4 m off forest floor (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3260)
Example: This is a famine food. Cut the vine, clean the outside of it, remove bark, put the vines on a hot stone oven, cover with leaves (unspecified) and one hour later the vine is edible.
Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kaviatameta
kiri
konamret
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5153)
Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.
Scientific name: Alchornea scandens, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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konianaker
konianaker
konuwak arwerew
kurapou
kwanarai
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tree, 6-7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3101)
Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.
Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kwanarai
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tree, 6-7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3101)
Example: People use this plant as a medicine to treat bad knees. Peel the bark, take 1 handful and put it in a cup of water until the water becomes black. Drink it 3x daily as needed until the knee pain disappears and the knee heals. Children use the seeds as a glue in school work.
Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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namari
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tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area.
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Acasia spirorbis, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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namatamai
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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napur
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5128)
Example: Medicine for gonnorhea. Collect two plants and clean their roots, boil whole in 2 liters water, boil 20-40 minutes, drink the mixture hot, 2 cups a day, 3 weeks. This condition presents as a burning in the penis, along with other issues. For heavy cough, take double handful leaf, boil 10-15 minutes in 1 liter water, 2 cups day warm, for 5 days. Pods used to calm children by shaking as rattle, when they are crying.
Scientific name: Cassia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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naturena
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epiphyte growing in dense forest, along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3023)
Example: Ornamental: After one week of being sun-dried, men will place this plant in their arm band (“Tikinapuai”) during katom ceremonies.
Scientific name: Huperzia phlegmaria, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nekes kes
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parasite on fallen ficus branch, growing in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3136)
Example: When a person sees this in flower, they know that the taro is ready for harvest. Birds like the fruit and so boys like to hunt the birds near the plant.
Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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ngarehma
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shrub, 4-6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3090)
Example: This plant is known as "fishbone leaf" as the edge of the leaf tears away and the remaining part is serrated. It is a powerful medicine that is secret.
Scientific name: Leea indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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niemhis
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5123)
Example: Young leaves are edible fresh or can be boiled for 5 min in pot. Can roll young leaves around coconut pieces and eat it with salt. Green fruits edible. Red fruits boiled, salted and eaten.
Scientific name: Ficus scabra, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nimasiur
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large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4220)
Example: 1. Flying foxes, pidgeons and rats consume the fruits. 2. The wood is used as a commercial timber.
Scientific name: Elaeocarpus angustifolius, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nimewae
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5061)
Example: Use stem to build roof rafters. Before people had matches, this plant was used to light fires by rubbing one stem of this against another piece of the same tree.
Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nipar
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5082)
Example: Wood is very hard and good for making canoe. Wood is good to build house (house posts). Takes seeds from dried fruit, break them open, boil in water and collect oil that rises to the top. This oil used as massage oil. Rub oil from dried seeds in hair to kill lice.
Scientific name: Calophyllum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nkawahai-rea
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small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3132)
Example: Straight stem used for spear shaft
Scientific name: Tapeinosperma, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nukuk
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epiphyte on dead tree in open area at edge of forest and garden. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3138)
Example: Secret medicine--not to discuss
Scientific name: Scyphularia pycnocarpa, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nɨkava tapuga
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kind of kava artificially sprouted at an upper node of a planted cutting (large tapuga are exchanged during circumcision feasts)
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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punuwas
tamarua
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youth, circumcised boy up to the age of marriage (i.e., approx. 5 to 18 years of age)
Speaker: Lindstrom 1986
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tikinau asori
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5124)
Example: Used for the construction of many things including walls for houses and benches.
Scientific name: Bambusa vulgaris, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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warakou
yangawhir ~ yaniawir