Nafe (Kwamera)

v.    plant (certain plants such as taro, papaya, kava, sugarcane, manioc)

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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• botany

v.    plant modifier word used with yam ("nuk")

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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• botany

v    tie a house post

( Bislama ) taetem ol pos blo aos.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: see more on Youtube

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• house
• botany

   kind of cassava. The skin of the root of this variety is red

Scientific name: Manihot esculenta

Speaker: Johnson Noar

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• botany
• cassava

n.    well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3091)

Scientific name: Dillenia biflora

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: The leaf can be used to wrap food for carrying, for example, wrapping up crabs.

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• botany
• family Dilleniaceae

n.    Tahitian chestnut

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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• botany

   lady finger bananas

Scientific name: Bislama

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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• botany
• banana

   kind of banana, a small banana; very sweet

Scientific name: Musa spp.

Speaker: Johnson Noar

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• botany
• banana

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5079)

Scientific name: Psidium guajava

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Fruits eaten when they turn yellow and are ripe.

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• botany
• family Myrtaceae

n.    marigold

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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• botany

n.    lichen

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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• botany

n.    (collection: Michael J. Balick #5107)

Scientific name: Chamaesyce

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: For Asthma, take one handful of shaved stem with 1/2 L water. Boil in a pot 5-10 minutes, a drink 1 warm cup two times a day for one week.

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• botany

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5141)

Scientific name: Geophila

Speaker: Johnson Noar

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• botany
• family Rubiaceae

n.    type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5159)

Scientific name: Phyllanthus

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: To attract fish in the sea. Take the branches and mix with mashed coconut endosperm, put (throw) in sea and then use line and hook to catch reef fish there.

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Semantic domains:

• botany
• family Phyllanthaceae

[ jaku jaku ]

n.    kind of herb (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3165)

Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Semantic domains:

• herb
• botany
• family Portulacaceae

n.    herb growing on roadside along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3165)

Scientific name: Portulaca oleracea

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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• botany
• family Portulacaceae

   kind of yam, produces a tuber with white flesh and is easy to grow

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp.

Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Has a spreading habit in the garden. The tuber is soft and easy to boil

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• botany
• yam

n.    kind of seaweed

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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• botany

n.    kind of coconut with large ’eyes’

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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• botany
• coconut

n.    kind of coconut with reddish fibre

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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• botany
• coconut

n.    small coconut, coconut fruit bud

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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• botany
• coconut

[ jare̤mə̤ ]

n.    herb, growing along open garden path. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3084)

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Example: This plant is used to treat diarrhea in a baby 1-6 months old. The mother takes 4, 1" pieces and chews them, spitting it into the baby’s mouth 2x daily, once in the morning and once in the afternoon until the diarrhea stops. Sometimes if the baby is sick from a spirit such as a yam, taro or sea spirit, the mother takes 2, 1" pieces of stem and 2, 1" pieces of Acalypha wilkesiana petiole (Plunkett et.al. #3081) and chews the two species together and spits on the affected baby, telling the spirit to "go away and leave the baby alone.

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• botany
• family Asteraceae

n.    herb, growing along open garden path. flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3084)

Scientific name: Bidens pilosa

Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Example: This plant is used to treat diarrhea in a baby 1-6 months old. The mother takes 4, 1" pieces and chews them, spitting it into the baby’s mouth 2x daily, once in the morning and once in the afternoon until the diarrhea stops. Sometimes if the baby is sick from a spirit such as a yam, taro or sea spirit, the mother takes 2, 1" pieces of stem and 2, 1" pieces of Acalypha wilkesiana petiole (Plunkett et.al. #3081) and chews the two species together and spits on the affected baby, telling the spirit to "go away and leave the baby alone.

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• botany
• family Asteraceae

n.    kind of banana

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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• botany

n.    type of sprouting coconut the sprout of which grows along the body of the nut

Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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• botany
• coconut

n.    kind of sweet potato with dark flesh

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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• botany

n    flower stamen

Speaker: Martial wahe

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• botany

n    pollen (of flowers)

Speaker: Martial wahe

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• botany