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karuarua
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[kawəwə]
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Example: Ceremonial: During a large kastom ceremony ("Nakwyari"), a branch of this plant is used to sweep the nakamal before the toka dance.
Scientific name: Meryta neo-ebudica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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koniere
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Example: The nut inside of the fruit contains sap. Cut a fruit in half and stick it to a person’s arm, and then take it off, put earth on the place where the sap is, and it makes a temporary tatoo that lasts for 3-4 days. This fruit is the best flying fox food, and when the tree has ripe fruits many flying foxes go there to feed, and hunters know this. The fruits are eaten by people as well.
Scientific name: Burckella obovata, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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koniere
konuwak
konuwak arwerew
kuanuares
kuayei
kwanam poro
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Example: Fruits edible when ripe. For dengue fever, take 1 bundle of leaves and stems, mash and place in pot with 2 L water, boil 30 minutes, drink warm. Drink 1 liter 1x day for 4-6 days depends on strength of dengue. "Sends" dengue out from your body.
Scientific name: Physalis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kwanapɨt
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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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kwankɨpu
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Example: During boiling, the water is said to turn red in color and then changes to whatever the color is of what it is being cooked with
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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makhum
marimari
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Example: To treat indigestion, take 5 roots from 5 different plants, clean, grate into 600mL bottle of water. Drink one bottle twice daily. In Tanna, people use this plant to make rain, thunder, or to stop the rain. To make rain, take a big pile of this plant’s leaves, tie them in a bundle with a rope, and put into the sea. When the leaves start rotting, usually after one week, the rain will come.
Scientific name: Zingiber zerumbet, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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minim
nageruk
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Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are attracted to this plant for their flowers. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the flying fox. Fuel: Used as a firewood.
Scientific name: Geissois denhamii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nakur
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Example: This plant is used as a medicine for throat infections. Take 2, 2" pieces of the leaf, chew and swallow the juice, spit out the fibers, 3x daily, for as long as the throat hurts.
Scientific name: Polyscias scutellaria, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nakwaragfam
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Example: Stem for house building. Young leaves are very strong and used as plates during large kastom ceremonies. Sap can be used to cover sores from flies in order to protect it. Stem good for firewood as does not give much smoke--does not bother eyes as much as other wood.
Scientific name: Macaranga tanarius, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nanumi
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Example: To treat broken bones combine two handfuls of Commelina diffusa and 2 handfuls of this whole Orchid. Then take half of that and rub on broken bone area (e.g. leg). The Kastom doctor will then make a cut with a sharp piece of bamboo along break. The bone is then wrapped with the leaf of this orchid, then take the pother half of the mixture, mash in water 1.5 liter, and give person to drink. This treatment will help join bone back together.
Scientific name: Malaxis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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napati
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Example: This is female type. MJB 5068 is male type. When person has diarrhea with blood (dysentry) take a double handful of leaves and mash them in 2 liter water, boil, drink warm 1 cup 3x day until the condition goes away. Stem used for roofing- attac hes to the rafters so thatching and leaves can be attached.
Scientific name: Polyscias schmidii, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nasar
natahi
natehi
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Example: Children from Tanna and throughout Vanuatu use this plant to make a slingshot. As a "medicine," when chickens are ruining your garden, if you plant this plant it will chase away the chickens.
Scientific name: Ervatamia orientalis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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naturena
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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: Martial Wahe
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nawirec
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Example: Good for boiling or making lap-lap
Scientific name: Xanthosoma sagittifolium or Alocacia macrorrhizos, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nekemap
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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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nesory
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Example: Cut branches, dry in the sun until the leaves fall out, and then tie branches together to make broom. Stem used for canoe outrigger.
Scientific name: Murraya paniculata, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nifeag
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Example: 1. Pidgeons (small local birds) eat the fruit. 2. When in flower the kava is considered weak and not distrubed. After flowering passes, the kava stems (known as hands) are considered strong again.
Scientific name: Macaranga dioica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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niknapus
noukwetao
nuapupu
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Example: When a person is stung by a jellyfish, take 5-6 leaves and whip the sore for 5-10 minutes and this will reduce the soreness of the wound.
Scientific name: Ipomoea pes-caprae, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nukmihia’
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Example: 1. Ripe fruits are used by children in a game to imitate the devil. 2. It is considered tapu to make firewood from this tree. It tis thought the yam stems will dry and the fruits will be sub-par as a result.
Scientific name: Melastoma malabathricum, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nukuk-apran
nukwetau
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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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nulangly
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Example: Ornamental plant. Known to be poisonous.
Scientific name: Cascabela thevetia, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nɨmramiri
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Example: Fruits used to feed hens to increase fertility -- mix seed with dry coconut and give to hen to increase eggs.
Scientific name: Phyllanthus ciccoides, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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pawpawuk
penesu
Takiaew sei tasi
terang
tukraus
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Example: Stem used to plant kava (use it like a spade) but even when you have a spade, you should still use this to dig the hole. The leaf is used to make laplap, a food made from taro or yam with coconut and other foods added. Take the leaf and wrap the laplap and then roast the package on the fire or cook the leaf in a pot of water.
Scientific name: Cordyline fruticosa, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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tuwai
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Example: The stem is used to make house posts; the young stems are used to make bows and young boys use the bows made from this tree to hunt birds and flying foxes.
Scientific name: Dysoxylum aneityense, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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yesu