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-an

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v intr 1. go, walk, be in motion; 2. be unmarried; 3. shine (as the sun)

-apane

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v use protective magic

-apwɨkɨr

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v 1. roll, push; 2. rattle (as a can full of small rocks)

-arkouani

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v tr wear around neck (as a necklace, neck ornament or tie)

-arɨgi

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v 1. singe, burn (as hair off a pig), warm, dry by a fire; 2. cook (on a fire)

-asighi

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v lead (as an animal), tie a rope around to lead, drive, drive on

-asivur

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v intr babble (as a child)

-árihi

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v whip, strike with a rope or stick

awehi

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v. take! or hold! (imperative)

awsi

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v. to kill

huine

Conger cinereus http://fishbase.org/summary/Conger-cinereus.html
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Longfin African conger, moustache conger

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

ia-kakousarip

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I weave a mat or basket

ia-kamaii nikawa

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v I chew kava

ia-karai nahii

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I cut the tree

ia-kregi raraha

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I am sad

iaku-iaku

Portulaca oleracea
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[jaku jaku] n. kind of herb (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3165)

ianɨr

ianɨr
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mullet (fish)

iaran

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day

iepe

Naso brevirostris http://fishbase.org/summary/Naso-brevirostris.html
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Spotted Unicornfish

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

Iuea

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n. Port Resolution

karuarua

Photo by Martial Wahe
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n. tree, small

Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

kawir

Acridotheres tristis
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Common Myna

Example: Photos by Byron Chin / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Flickr

kesi

To treat ciguatera disease (fish toxin), boil a double handful of the male flower, in  2 liter water, 10-15 min. Drink all at once warm. Drink one pot daily for 2 days. Leaves and flowers to feed pigs. Fruit edible. Slice the green fruit and boil it to make soup or fry it in oil and make a salad. Ripe fruit to make jam.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5101)

Example: To treat ciguatera disease (fish toxin), boil a double handful of the male flower, in 2 liter water, 10-15 min. Drink all at once warm. Drink one pot daily for 2 days. Leaves and flowers to feed pigs. Fruit edible. Slice the green fruit and boil it to make soup or fry it in oil and make a salad. Ripe fruit to make jam.

kijirimak sa namritaik

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my elder sister

kipori ia tasiapen

Phyllidia varicosa https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49735-Phyllidia-varicosa
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Varicose Wart Slug

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

kiri

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flying fox

kmtameta, tanpiteu

When a person has diarrhea with blood (dysentery) , this is the plant medicine used to treat it. Take leaves and squeeze juice into a cup of water and give this to the person who is ill.  One teaspoon for young children and for an adult 1 full cup in the morning each day until fully cured.
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n. low-growing herb, growing in dense forest heavily impacted by cyclone. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3259)

Example: When a person has diarrhea with blood (dysentery) , this is the plant medicine used to treat it. Take leaves and squeeze juice into a cup of water and give this to the person who is ill. One teaspoon for young children and for an adult 1 full cup in the morning each day until fully cured.

konuwak sarapiran

Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides http://fishbase.org/summary/Plectorhinchus-chaetodonoides.html
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Harlequin Sweetlips, Many-Spotted Sweetlips, Spotted Sweetlips (female)

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

kouwehew

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kind of shell, with smooth black color

Example: edible shell, boiled in the saucepan or roasted in the fire

kreirai

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club, with star shaped head

kuanihinihy

Stems can be used as a broom when tied in bunch. When a young woman does not want to have children, she can chew these leaves for one week, spit out fibers and swallow the leaf residue. If she chews four branches of leaves per treatment, two times a day, for one week, she will stay barren for 5-6 years.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5034)

Example: Stems can be used as a broom when tied in bunch. When a young woman does not want to have children, she can chew these leaves for one week, spit out fibers and swallow the leaf residue. If she chews four branches of leaves per treatment, two times a day, for one week, she will stay barren for 5-6 years.

kuankumah

Psychotria milnei
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n. understory treelet, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4210)

kuetawirua

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 budles 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 budles 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.

kuramái

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n month name (archaic) corresponding to August

kwanapɨt

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.

n. 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.

kwankumaha

The leaves of this plant are used to feed to pigs.
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[kwankuma] n. shrub to understory tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3144)

Example: The leaves of this plant are used to feed to pigs.

mak sei suatouk

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n bend in the road

nahpao phisir

Canthidermis maculata http://fishbase.org/summary/Canthidermis-maculata.html
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Rough triggerfish, spotted oceanic triggerfish, oceanic triggerfish

Example: Photo by Ross Robertson / Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

nakwa numun

nakwa numun
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[nakwanumɨn] rock earth oven

namanu

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n my scalp

namatamai

Lethrinus xanthochilus http://fishbase.org/summary/Lethrinus-xanthochilus.html
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Yellowlip emperor

Example: Photo by Anthony Pearson / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

namitɨg

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coconut development stage 4

Example: falls down, rats eat it, used to feed pigs and chickens

nasar

Phymatosorus scolopendria
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n. type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5126)

nashiapou

Cyperus
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5081)

Nasuapurien

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disturbance

(Bislama) disteb

nawaprien ~ narwaprien

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n. lightning in sky

nei

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n. tree, bush, log, timber, wood

nek-ke-hmap

This plant is used to lift a person up--take two leaves together and make a "seat" and put it under a person, they can then be lifted up by the two people with a leaf on each side of that person. Use the leaf of this species to wrap rolled leaves of wild tobaco, to protect it and keep it fresh and moist.
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[neke hmup] n. herb to 2 m tall, growing on the edge of a homestead (collection: Michael J. Balick #4723)

Example: This plant is used to lift a person up--take two leaves together and make a "seat" and put it under a person, they can then be lifted up by the two people with a leaf on each side of that person. Use the leaf of this species to wrap rolled leaves of wild tobaco, to protect it and keep it fresh and moist.

neuaien

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vomit

nevisaien

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fight, dispute, argument

nifar

kind of laplap (food)

nimiraia

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n. kind of thick grass

niskaiian

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the power or the strongest

niséi

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n. aromatic shrub (Evodia?), the leaves of which men and women wear during ceremonial events

nivɨn

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canoe parts: sail

nkhaourakou

Wood is hard, making it good for canoe making. Also used to make the stick that holds outrigger to canoe (Nikiavet).
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5083)

Example: Wood is hard, making it good for canoe making. Also used to make the stick that holds outrigger to canoe (Nikiavet).

nukwai rangɨk sararve

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n my fist

numpéin

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n. smelly herb, basil and other imported herbs

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n. banana leaf, frond

nuvás

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n. Hibiscus, species with edible leaves, ’island cabbage’

nuwas

nuwas
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plant (to be identified, grown in gardens, said to originate from New Caledonia)

nátahi

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n. kind of tree, Bislama: ’milk tree’

Nɑgɨaŋien

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happiness

nɨfaga

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bow

nɨkava napenkaru

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n. Two day kava (one stays intoxicated for two days)

nɨkwaraka

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name of a star constellation

nɨmér

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n. Tahitian chestnut

nɨmɨri

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n. An orange tree (wood used for bows) See kwanɨmɨri

nɨpunɨpun

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spider web

nɨpɨg

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hole, burrow, cave

nɨpɨn

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1. night, 2. day (24 hour period)

oklen

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n. kind of watermelon, round, small, very sweet with small seeds (from E. Auckland)

parov

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please, sorry

paru

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n swordfish

pasuwa

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

Small Giant Clam

Example: via inaturalist.org

penesu

Scarus longipinnis http://fishbase.org/summary/Scarus-longipinnis.html
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Highfin parrotfish

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

pepheer pitew

Plectorhinchus albovittatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Plectorhinchus-albovittatus.html
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Two-striped sweetlips, giant sweetlips

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

piawni

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his brother

pitu-pitu

pitu-pitu
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Ramasikin

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hold or take something

Example: young people hold chew kava to drink. or old people walking with walking stick

ruwama narisian

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died laughing

(Bislama) det laf

sola

sola
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solar panel

Takakwein

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call someone; laughter

(Bislama) singaot

Takiaew sei tasi

Chromodoris lochi https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/201640-Chromodoris-lochi
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Loch’s Chromodoris

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

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

taku

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string game (bed shape)

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.

tasiapen

Pterocaesio trilineata http://fishbase.org/summary/Pterocaesio-trilineata.html
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Three-Stripe Fusilier

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

tegi tɨsi

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today pool of water

teki kusan

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kind of snail

tukra kahar

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day after tomorrow

tumien

Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.
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n. small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2984)

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.

tupuk ramamisa

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I feel pain in my belly

(Bislama) bel blo mi so

tɨmri

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n. cutting of leaves or top portion of taro or sugarcane stalk set aside for replanting

tɨnɨrup

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n family, household

tɨpaha

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boiled coconut milk

ur

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louse

uritoga natoga

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wind direction: south-east wind

vɨraku

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kind of stingray

Yanarbon

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