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-arisi
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kahimaregi
kapa
Yellow-banded snapper, hussar
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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konapungam
n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5104)
Example: Break endocarp with knife and eat it. Children eat young green seeds. mature endocarp cleaned and used to play marbles. Split stem and use for floor of house. Leaf used to wrap cassava for roasting in ground oven or dried on fire. Young seedlings pulled up and meritsem eaten as food (Nanimen) palm heart of young tree.
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Speckled blue grouper, speckled grouper (deep sea)
Example: Photo by John Turnbull / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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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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kuankuma
kuatiapas
kind of coconut, produces the smallest coconut, with an oblong shape
Example: It is said that when children play in the bush they like to find this coconut to eat. The local name refers to children—small in size, just like a child. It is not considered a good variety for an adult to eat
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5166)
Example: For the kastom ceremonies, this can provide the face paint color yellow. Cut open the ripe fruit and paint directly with this. Prior to artificial colors, people used this for yellow and Bixa orellana for red to paint faces and skin.
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kind of yam, produces a tuber with reddish flesh. The tuber can be up to 2 meters long and very hard inside, taking a long time to boil. It is easy to grow
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
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mak irenha
Tanna fruit dove
Example: Photo by Doug Janson / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Dark capped parrotfish
Example: Photo by Andrew J. Green / Reef Life Survey, License: CC BY 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Pinecone soldierfish, small-eyed squirrelfish
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, 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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Rough triggerfish, spotted oceanic triggerfish, oceanic triggerfish
Example: Photo by Ross Robertson / Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Spangled emperor
Example: Photo by Richard Ling, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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naskou
naskou
nawawa
neiuk
n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5106)
Example: If someone has swollen legs or arms, like from bruises or boils, crush leaves and rub on the swollen area twice a day for 1 week, or until sores disappear. For anemia, take a double handful of leaves, squeeze into 1 L water, and drink one bottle three day for 2 weeks.
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[maka:rwa] n. liana growing on trunk of hedycarya dorstenioides, in dense forest along ridge. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3004)
Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are attracted to this plant for their red fruits. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the flying fox.
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5114)
Example: Weave bark fiber to make slings, grass skirt for ladies, hats and baskets. To do this, rett outer bark in sea for 1 week to rot everything but the fiber, take remaining fiber, dry in sun and use as a fiber for weaving.
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numasur
pawpawuk pusan
Common Grass Blue
Example: Photo by flecksy / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org
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Blue-lined large-eye bream
Example: Photo by Jean-Lou Justine / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Grey large-eye bream
Example: Photo by BEDO (Thailand), License: CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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toupar toupar
n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5132)
Example: Flower for decorating things like at marriage, church, opening of new building like dispensary. Ancient people, when needed water, take stem, mash 4-6 pieces and squeeze into coconut shell and drink it. So squeeze the stems together after mashing them along their entire length with wood post. This can be used to collect water today when a person is in the forest and thirsty. Leaves wrap banana laplap. Put in saucepan boil 20 minutes, toss out water, take leaf off and eat laplap. Leaf folded not tied. People say its native to Vanuatu
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tɨmri
wipin napiran
Yellowtail Scad (female)
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Hawksbill Sea Turtle
Example: Photo by tonydiver / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org
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Indian goatfish
Example: Photo by Lyle Vail / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Manybar goatfish
Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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