-amwhén
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1. equal, the same, similar; 2. enough, sufficient, acceptable, fitting; 3. desirous of, needful of
Speaker: Martial wahe
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-arér
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1. stand, stand on; 2. remain, be like, be at, be in office (as an elected official); 3. stop at (as a bus, or truck)
Speaker: Martial wahe
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kapri iapri
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5110)
Example: Leaves fed to pig. Women string the seeds to make necklaces to sell. If the libido of a male is too strong ("bamboo is too strong"), mix juice from leaves and mix with 1/2 L water and drink 2 cups 1 day.
Scientific name: Leucaena leucocephala, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kapuapu
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sapling, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4235)
Example: 1. When in flower, it is s a good time to hunt swefa, a type of sea mollusc.
Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kareng reng
karkarepa
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type of flowering plant; box bean or St. Thomas’ bean
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Entada phaseoloides, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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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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konapwit
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5045)
Example: If a person comes to your garden and tries to spoil it with a special leaf by rubbing it on his foot and walking around or rubbbing it on a stick and tossing it into a garden, take 8 branches of this species (MB 5045) and put 2 in each corner of a new garden. If branches are placed when the garden is planted, it will not be spoiled by this black magic. To stop having children chew 4 pieces of young stem 2 in. long. 2 times daily for one week and the woman will no longer have children.
Scientific name: Desmodium incanum, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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konianaker
konianaker
koniere
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tree with a dense crown and edible fruit
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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konpir
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5136)
Example: To tie the wall of a house, strip off leaves and tie fresh to house.
Scientific name: Flagellaria indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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konuwak arwerew
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Leopard hind, leopard grouper (deep sea)
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
Scientific name: Cephalopholis leopardus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe
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konuwak pitew
kwanapɨt
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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: Johnson Noar
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kwareren akuang
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herb growing on large rock in middle of flowing stream. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3114)
Example: The stem of this plant is a hollow tube, its local name means "inside out." When a person sings a kaostum song, they chew the stem and it is said to give the person a "big" voice. It also helps a person shout and sing loud as it helps to clear the throat.
Scientific name: Youngia japonica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kwarwasei
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5120)
Example: When parents go away to a feast or garden, children take a pile of soil 12 in. diameter, put this flower on top, surround wth some ashes and then hide in the house to wait to see if the dwarf spirit appears (Karwase Haruase). Sometimes the spirit will come and then scare the children. Ancestors used these spirits and games to teach children to stay together and not wander alone. As the dwarf spirit will take you.
Scientific name: Volkameria inermis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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makhum
mangopen
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kind of mango, the fruit of this variety has thin skin, sweet flesh; it comes from Fiji
Scientific name: Mangifera indica, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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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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manuapen
minim
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Blue-spotted spinefoot, coral rabbitfish (fresh water)
Example: Photo by BS Thurner Hof / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
Scientific name: Siganus corallinus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe
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nafeiruan
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5089)
Example: Hundreds of years ago, there was no tobacco. People dried and smoked this as tobacco. When fishing, wrap string around stem--use as a reel.
Scientific name: Argusia argentea, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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namari
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5084)
Example: Planted for shade near a village or near houses. Shade tree.
Scientific name: Acacia simplex, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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namatamai
nanɨs
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5150)
Example: Poisonous plant. Planted near cultivated garden to kill virus in soil.
Scientific name: Volkameria inermis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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napɨk
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5097)
Example: This tree is planted to mark the area of a Nakamal. Young roots used as bowstring..
Scientific name: Ficus prolixa, 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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nasar
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type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5074)
Example: Used for food. Boil the leaves for 15-20 min, fry them, or put them in the earth oven to eat. They taste very good.
Scientific name: Microsorum, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nasasa
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banyan growing next to house along main path. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3150)
Example: The bark of this tree is used to make a kastom strap, particularly worn in the Toka Dance, where people have different ranks, and the kastom belt of this bark shows a person’s rank.
Scientific name: Ficus cf. tinctoria, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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natgamera
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petrophyte, growing in deep shade (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3115)
Scientific name: (moss), Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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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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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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niras
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5087)
Example: Very poison sap and leaves. When in fruit the fruit bat eat this and can’t fly well so fall down and can be harvested.
Scientific name: Semecarpus tannaensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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noueis
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Indian mulberry (Morinda citrifolia), eaten or used for medicine to heal many ailments, and as a poison antidote, also gives energy and improved cognitive function, has a bad taste
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nukwetau
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type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5086)
Example: In ancient times during cyclone season when no food could be harvested, collect the stem and take the white flesh out of center, and bake in the ground oven. Young leaves cooked like island cabbage and eaten. 2 petiole put together and used to grate banana and fresh taro for cooking. Can split the trunk in pieces to make flooring for house. Nailed to joists/supports.
Scientific name: Sphaeropteris lunulata, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nurpiteu
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tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2974)
Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Animal Food: Sometimes, green leaves of this plant are fed to goats.
Scientific name: Geniostoma rupestre, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nɨmu mɨru
pawpawuk pitew
pepheer pitew
pirawa ~ firawa
pranawhi sei piak sarawihi
takiew
teki tagharua ~ tikitagarua
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nautilus shell. Possibly family Nautilidae
Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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tui-tui
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shrub, 2-3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3085)
Example: The leaves of this plant are used to cover the hot stone ovens when cooking lap-lap. The ripe fruit is used to burn as a lap. Take the seeds, impale on the fiber in the middle of a coconut leaf pinnae and light, holding the slender stick and lighting a person’s way.
Scientific name: Ricinus communis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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tumien
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[tʰãmijen]
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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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yakakusarɨp
yapha iwis