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Kamsiwi
Scarlet Percher
Example: Photo by givernykate / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org
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Common bluestripe snapper
Example: Photo by Lyle Vail / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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kawir
konquaequae
n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5036)
Example: Young plants for roof rafters, larger plants used for house posts. Women who get pregnant with someone else besides husband use this to abort. Boil a double handful of scraped stem in water and drink 1 cup four times daily to abort. Fruits are edible. Cut it open and eat what’s inside.
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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
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[kwanwi:ru] n. well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3036)
Example: Tools: The roots of this plant are used as a rope to fasten pig’s feet during the kastom ceremony. Landscape: This tree is planted as a shelter tree. Hunting: Pidgeons are known to eat the fruits of this tree. When hunters desire these birds, they will gather near to this tree. Fuel: The dried wood of this tree is used as a firewood.
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Kɨnɨwi
Purple-winged Mantis
Example: Photo by flecksy / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org
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Black Imperial Pigeon
Example: Illustration by Joseph Smit / Wikimedia Commons, License: Public domain via es.wikipedia.org
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[nakanakan] n. terrestrial herb, 0.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3069)
Example: People use this to treat boils on the skin. Squeeze the "juice" of the leaf on the boil, and it will soften it so that the liquid inside the boil comes out. If you chew an amount of leaves first, then they will cover and stick to the boil so it will heal faster.
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nare
[neri] n. herb to 1.5 m tall, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4722)
Example: This plant is used to welcome people by weaving the leaves and flowers into a head lei, locally known as a Kuanari. If there are no flowers, people weave the leaves and use these to welcome visitors. This species is becoming an invasive in the area.
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n. herb to 1.5 m tall, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4722)
Example: This plant is used to welcome people by weaving the leaves and flowers into a head lei, locally known as a Kuanari. If there are no flowers, people weave the leaves and use these to welcome visitors. This species is becoming an invasive in the area.
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nava
neimeiraer
neknapus
n. sparsely branched shrub, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3081)
Example: The leaves of this plant are warmed over a fire and put warm on the legs of a person who is cold or has a headache, such as from a fever that comes with the flu. See 3076 for additional comments on this technique.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5031)
Example: For Kastom ceremonies, use this plant to decorate the roots of Kava that is given to a chief. Also used in women’s grass skirt for kastom dance. When young girls are getting their first period (menstruation), they wear a grass skirt from this plant to be fragrant (in order to cover any blood smell).
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nuack
nur
n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5157)
Example: When young baby is loosing weight, give young tops--cooked-- to mother to eat for one month to help increase milk. You can also scrape a handful of inner bark of Ficus kajewskii (5163) into small pieces with a knife, mix with a handful of the young tops of (5157) in 1L of water and cook it, and squeeze the juice into a bottle. Drink one cup twice daily for one month to help a mother who is not providing enough milk for her baby. Kids put inflorescences in hair as a sort of rasta fashion.
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pan
parangi
Orange-socket surgeonfish
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Lemonfish, gold-spotted sweetlips
Example: Photo by Richard Ling / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Convict surgeonfish, convict tang
Example: Photo by Philippe Bourjon / Fishbase, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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tangarua
Banded Sea Krait
Example: Photo by melianie_and_max / iNaturalist, License: CC0 via inaturalist.org
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tuai
twe twe
n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5090)
Example: Take a coconut leaf, take out the midribs so it becomes a sharp spine, impale the seeds on this, and light them for use as a torch. Leaf used to cover earth oven, and can be put between the stones and the wrapped cooking leaves in order to keep the food clean. Children play with the seeds as marbles
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yesu
Dash-and-dot goatfish
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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