-apwah
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1. refuse, not want, choose not to, leave, stop (doing), not care, give up; 2. with ra, denotes state of sufficiency: plenty, enough
Speaker: Martial wahe
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-atia(i)
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1. grate (tubers); 2. treat with traditional medicine (by spitting grated or masticated ingredients on the patient’s head)
Speaker: Wahe Martial
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duea
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well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3091)
Example: The leaf can be used to wrap food for carrying, for example, wrapping up crabs.
Scientific name: Dillenia biflora, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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karorɨt
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5134)
Example: Cut open ripe fruit, put red seed in mouth, chew them, then spit out hard seeds left. Ancients used to eat the seeds in this way -- certain people still like it.
Scientific name: Momordica charantia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kayap amtameta
konambre
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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: Johnson Noar
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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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konphar
kuankuma
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2976)
Example: No use disclosed.
Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kuanuaras
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terrestrial, climbing vine-like. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2618)
Example: The rachis is used to fasten posts and rafters in traditional houses.
Scientific name: Lygodium reticulatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kwankasikap
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2988)
Example: Clothing: The bark of this plant is peeled and sundried (~2 days) to be woven into Nambas.
Scientific name: Wikstroemia indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kwanmatwa
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kind of yam, related to kawehae with a large mass of tubers that have red flesh and are sweet. It has the same type of flesh as that variety but the leaves differ in shape
Example: If a person loses some of his yams in the garden to various conditions, such as poor soil or disease, these two varieties will always continue to grow, being very hardy and resilient. This yam was originally from Iankahi but now the village is losing this variety. However, some people in Port Resolution still grow it
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kwatɨsi-
mak afuman
makhum
mantopani robert
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kind of cassava. The man who went to Port-Vila and brought this variety back to Port Resolution was Robert Rwae and it is named for him
Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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minim
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White-spotted spinefoot, white-spotted rabbitfish (salt water)
Example: Photo by Rick Stuart-Smith / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
Scientific name: Siganus canaliculatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe
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minin tonga
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Bluelined surgeonfish
Example: Photo by John E. Randall, License: CC BY-NC 3.0
Scientific name: Acanthurus nigroris via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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namatamai
namatamai
napa
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[na:pa]
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tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2998)
Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of a house. Agricultural: A mushroom (“Karareg”) grows on the deadwood of this plant and is consumed.
Scientific name: Neonauclea forsteri, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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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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nawirok
nekemap
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5016)
Example: When a person is sick put two of these large leaves together and use them to "carry" a person to the medicine specialist. If the sick person is a man, six people line up and put many leaves on the palm of their interwoven hands and then they carry the sick person while saying a special incantation. This is a very old practice. If a person has a stomach pain take 2 of the white inflorescences with the right hand and give them to the person to eat, twice a day (in the morning and eveing) for 4 days. The pain will go away. When kava is chewed to prepare the beverage, the roots are sp
Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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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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nemrapoep
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large, well branched tree (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4240)
Example: 1. A locally revered kestrel, known as tikurkak, makes it’s nest with the leaves.
Scientific name: Weinmannia denhamii, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nepeka
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kind of coconut, has the largest fruit of any coconut and the fruit is more oblong in shape
Example: The fiber from this variety (from the sheath base) is used for kastom ceremonies to cover kava when the young boys are coming out from their circumcision houses. This fiber is also wrapped around the middle of a bow to give it strength and help prevent it from cracking. The fiber can also be used to make a sleeping hammock as it is strong and clean
Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nerer
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2972)
Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Fish Poison: To help catch fish, a bundle of leaves are squeezed and placed in a stream. After some time, the fish appear stunned and are caught.
Scientific name: Leucosyke australis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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newar
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5042)
Example: Leaf used to feed pigs--when looking for dried coconuts, gather this. The seeds are edible put them directly on fire and cook for 3-5 minutes.
Scientific name: Canavalia rosea, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nusun riwan
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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nɨkatireu
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5138)
Example: Remove base from flower and chew flower--tastes sweet. Long ago there were no pens, you could use this flower to write message on wood.
Scientific name: Malvaviscus arboreus, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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pawpawuk
penesu
pirei pirei
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herb growing along stream in open forest heavily impacted by cyclone. flowers blue. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3254)
Example: Used in an unspecified way for pregnant women to ensure the baby to grow well. Used in an unspecified way to control the weather.
Scientific name: Commelina, 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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sekermandou
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kind of taro, has white flesh, considered the mother of all taro on Tanna
Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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tafha, nafwerouk, kahimaregi, namitɨg , napuei mhia, kormahak, nwera
tangarua
tera
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5116)
Example: If a person gets cut while on reef, take leaves and burn them to an ash. Put this powder on the sore for one day to dry and heal cut. For constipation, take 1 handful bark, mash it, put with coconut water (one coconut’s worth0, and drink a cup once. Don’t do other activites. This will clear bowel within a day. Very powerful.
Scientific name: Excoecaria agallocha, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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timiun
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tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4246)
Example: 1. The inner bark is used to prepared a medicine to relieve upset stomachs. First, the inner bark is scratched until a handful is produced. Then the bark is squeezed with water until a small glass is filled. The decoction is consumed to relive upset stomachs. 2. The leaves are used to fashion a poultice to heal sores and boils.
Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Martial 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: Jean Pascal Wahe
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twe twe
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5090)
Example: Take a coconut leaf, take out the midribs so it becomes a sharp spine, impale the seeds on this, and light them for use as a torch. Leaf used to cover earth oven, and can be put between the stones and the wrapped cooking leaves in order to keep the food clean. Children play with the seeds as marbles
Scientific name: Ricinus communis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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yakuonapirawa
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5118)
Example: Young stems are used to support the roof of ther house. Use yellow sap for glue. Fruits and flowers eaten by flying fox. Same effect as poison tree, they do not fly correctly, often falling and can be harvested to eat.
Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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yarman
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kind of yam, has white flesh, soft and sweet, with a very large tuber, and is easy to grow
Example: If it grows in good conditions, the tubers are so large that it takes two people to carry it on a pole
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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yesu
yesu