-apwini
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1. strive, work at and succeed, go where there is no road, beat through the bush or heavy seas; 2. persevere, go ahead with anyway, pester
Speaker: Martial wahe
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-araka
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1. drop, let go of, throw away, discard; 2. stop doing, leave, die, no longer exist; 3. dodge (as a thrown stone)
Speaker: Martial wahe
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karorat
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5134)
Example: Cut open ripe fruit, put red seed in mouth, chew them, then spit out hard seeds left. Ancients used to eat the seeds in this way -- certain people still like it.
Scientific name: Momordica charantia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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karorɨt
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5134)
Example: Cut open ripe fruit, put red seed in mouth, chew them, then spit out hard seeds left. Ancients used to eat the seeds in this way -- certain people still like it.
Scientific name: Momordica charantia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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keusakeusa
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kind of breadfruit, medium-sized
Example: Cooked on a low fire as it has very soft flesh. Good tasting variety
Scientific name: Artocarpus altilis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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konianaker
konphar
kowava
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kind of taro, has reddish-white flesh like a guava fruit, and has a reddish leaf petiole
Scientific name: Colocasia esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kuankumah
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understory treelet, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4210)
Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kwareren-akwang
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[nokukəpran]
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herb growing on large rock in open area, in middle of flowing stream. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3117)
Example: People use this plant to treat heartburn and when they get indigestion. Take the leaf and wrap it with Ficus leaves ("manasus" unclear what species), chew them together and swallow the juice until the pain goes away.
Scientific name: Emilia sonchifolia, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kwaruisiur
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epiphyte growing in dense forest. Flowers yellow-orange to bright orange. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3047)
Example: Ornamental: Flowers are used to decorate houses.
Scientific name: Dendrobium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kwarwisiwir
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species of orchid
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Dendrobium mohlianum, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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Makwa wi
nameramer
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[nameramir]
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liana, growing on myristica fatua in dense forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3041)
Example: Construction: The vine of this tree is used as rope to fasten members of a house or bundles of sugar cane. It is not considered a strong rope.
Scientific name: Hoya australis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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namnamug
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type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5155)
Example: Young leaves are edible. Cook with meat and vegetables or boil leaves and mix with coconut milk.
Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nanemenmeta
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kind of coconut, characterized by a round fruit with a reddish color on the top of the fruit
Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nare
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[neri]
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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.
Scientific name: Hedychium coronarium, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nasasa
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banyan growing next to house along main path. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3150)
Example: The bark of this tree is used to make a kastom strap, particularly worn in the Toka Dance, where people have different ranks, and the kastom belt of this bark shows a person’s rank.
Scientific name: Ficus cf. tinctoria, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nasuaiou
nauri nauri
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tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3246)
Example: The young stems are used to make rafter of the house. A "calendar plant," when this plant flowers it is a good time to hunt flying fox because during that season they have a great deal of fat. Leaves used in the treatment of male children who have been circumsized. Wrap pieces of coconut with these leaves,heat in fire for 5-10 minutes, squeeze the hot leaf-infused oil all over the body. Children are taken to the sea to bathe and this will help heal the sore when it is put all over the body. It also gives the child a nice smell.
Scientific name: Melicope latifolia, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nekamako
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5162)
Example: Fruits are edible, ripe, break open with hammer and eat seeds fresh. Stems for house posts. Stems for carving.
Scientific name: Cordia subcordata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nekoko
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5077)
Example: Stem used to make canoe. Easy to cut.
Scientific name: Hernandia nymphaeifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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newahu
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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.
Scientific name: Hibiscus tilliaceus, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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newou
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tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3079)
Example: Used to treat pain. When a baby has an injection in the hospital, such as a vaccine, people take 1 handful of leaves, boil in a small amount of water to concentrate the resulting "juice" that comes out of the leaves, and put this fluid on the site of the pain, the injection, covering it with a leaf for 5-10 minutes, 2-3x daily until the baby stops crying.
Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nhamu
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yam, a kind of yam that is round, not long, with purple or yellow color. Purple ones can be eaten, yellow ones not eaten
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nisu manug
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type of fern (collection: Michael J. Balick #5142)
Example: Children collect young leaves to decorate their exercise books in school. If a person does not want to get too drunk on kava, they will chew 3 leaves before drinking, and spit out remains while swallowing the juice. This plant has the power to reduce effects of Kava.
Scientific name: Adiantum diaphanum, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nkhaourakou
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5083)
Example: Wood is hard, making it good for canoe making. Also used to make the stick that holds outrigger to canoe (Nikiavet).
Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nɨmrakw
pawpawuk
pawpawuk
penesu
penesu
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Pacific slopehead parrotfish, tan-faced parrotfish
Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
Scientific name: Chlorurus frontalis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe
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pepheer pitew
phuma phisir
ros
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shrub to 1 m tall, flowers red. ornamental plant in homestead garden. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4735)
Example: Ornamental plant
Scientific name: Rosa chinensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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Takiaew sei tasi
taopir-taopir
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herb, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3250)
Example: Children shoot the small hard seeds through a bamboo tube at lizards and butterflies, as a sort of game.
Scientific name: Canna indica, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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teprakaka
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branched tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4215)
Example: 1. When in flower, a local pidgeon, known as Tikurkak, prepares to lay its eggs. When the fruit dehisces its eggs are considered to have hatched.
Scientific name: Astronidium aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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tukraus
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branched tree, growing next to Ianarawia ("high hill") settlement (village of Philip Wahe). (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3153)
Example: The leaves of this plant are used by women to make grass skirts. Slice the leaf lengthwise, fold or roll them up, put to dry in sun until it becomes white. At that point it is used to make the grass skirt.
Scientific name: Dracaena sp., Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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tumien
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small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2984)
Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.
Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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tuwai
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tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3059)
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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tɨmpúa
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plant with white trumpet-shaped flowers, nightshade?
(Bislama) tƗmpúa
Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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