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-akiri
-árupwi
Fekɨr
karuarewa
kesy
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.
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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.
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Starspotted grouper (deep sea)
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Whitespotted grouper (deep sea)
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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n. liana growing on coconuts and ficus trees, at edge of disturbed agro-forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3087)
Example: The fiber from the stem is used to make a local rope used to tie thatch on the house. Also used to make an armband to put on the Nisei (Euodia hortensis) leaves (Plunkett et al.#3077).
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Harlequin sweetlips, many-spotted sweetlips
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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konuwak pitew
Squaretail coralgrouper (deep sea)
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Pink squirrelfish
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Mackinlay’s Cuckoo-Dove
Example: Photo by David Cook Wildlife Photography / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Streamlined spinefoot, forktail rabbitfish (salt water)
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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nahnen
[na̤:nɨn] n. well branched tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3086)
Example: The stems of this plant are one of the best firewoods; use the embers to light a person’s tobacco pipe. People know that when this plant has ripe fruit, it is time to hunt the flying fox near this tree.
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Longfin emperor
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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[napwejsen] n. tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3140)
Example: The wood from this tree makes strong house posts as well as timber for benches and can be used as firewood. If you don’t have soap, you can take the leaf, mash it up and wash with it--it produces a foam that cleans. Use for washing yourself, for example. If this tree has fruits, then people know that it is a good time to plant sweet potatoes and other crops.
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Yellow-striped sweetlips (male)
Example: Photo by Graham Edgar / Reef Life Survey. License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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nasemer
naskou
nekeskes-apran
nekoko
nukuarangfam
n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5133)
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.
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nɨparɨm
nɨpɨn ivus
pagaivii amramera sarapiran
Humphead wrasse (female)
Example: Photo by Anne Hoggett / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Greensnout parrotfish
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Orange-Socket Surgeonfish, Ringtail Surgeonfish
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Blackfin squirrelfish
Example: Photo by Jan Messersmith, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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yanar
Fringelip mullet
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Largescale mullet
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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