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1. equal, the same, similar; 2. enough, sufficient, acceptable, fitting; 3. desirous of, needful of
Speaker: Martial wahe
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-arɨs
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1. flow (as water), blow, push before (as the wind); 2. feel the need to urinate or defecate
Speaker: Wahe Martial
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Kamkari
kamumu
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1. kind of tuber pudding baked with edible leaves (nuvas), 2. cup made from rolled young banana leaves, 3. respect, friendship, fellowship
Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kapri iapri
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5109)
Example: To treat strong fever or flu, boil one handful of stem and leaves in 1 liter of water for 5 minutes. Drink this liquid warm, one cup a day for two days.
Scientific name: Mimosa pudica, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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karaiafinapeck
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5028)
Example: To reduce the pain of labor, squeeze double handful of leaves into 1 cup of cool water and give to the mother to drink.
Scientific name: Achyranthes aspera, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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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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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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kuaneker
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5041)
Example: Flower attracts flying fox--hunters know this. Nut is edible, eat green, split fruit to obtain it. Raw, can also fry it in oil and dry in sun, keep 1-2 week to eat. This is an important food for the cyclone season. People prepare it when they know the cyclone is coming (emergency food).
Scientific name: Barringtonia racemosa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kwankasikap
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2988)
Example: Clothing: The bark of this plant is peeled and sundried (~2 days) to be woven into Nambas.
Scientific name: Wikstroemia indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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kɨkɨtɨn
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baked vegetable food eaten along with meat, food baked in an earth oven (other than tuber puddings)
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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mai-nɨfara
manhewao apamus
manto billy
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kind of cassava, produces a tall plant with small roots
Example: Small roots are roasted in the earth oven or over the fire
Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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mombru
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homemade alcohol from kahimaregi coconut water, plus yeast, water, optionally pineapple juice, drunk on special occasions like Christmas
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nafara
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kind of pandanus
Example: The green leaves are used to weave mats, baskets and hats. The stem is used for making houseposts and also burned as firewood. The ripe fruits are cut open and the seeds are removed and eaten—they taste like coconut and are eaten fresh
Scientific name: Pandanus tectorius, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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namatamai
narukwás
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fumarole: an opening in a planet’s crust, often in areas surrounding volcanoes, which emits steam and gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen sulfide.
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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natehi
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[nata he]
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tree to 4 m tall, dbh 25 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4732)
Example: The tree is planted as a fence around the garden to keep out chickens. Branches with a "Y" are used to make slingshots.
Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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naturan
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epiphyte. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2624)
Example: 1. The plant is used entirely to produce grass skirts, known as raus. First the plant is retted in hot water and left to sun dry. Then portions of the plant are sewn together or draped over a waist band to form an ankle-length skirt.
Scientific name: Phlegmariurus oceanianus, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nauan/ nawan
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tree, dbh about 30-40 cm (collection: Laurence Ramon #329)
Scientific name: Syzygium cf. aneityense, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nefara
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tree growing in disturbed forest area along kwataren kastom road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3095)
Example: The leaves are woven to make mats, hats, baskets, fans. When pollen is released from the flower it is said that fish in the sea are healthy. The roots are used for tying things, pound pieces of root and strip them off and weave into rope. A person can cut a root in a way that makes a brush to paint grass skirts and other objects. This rope can also be used to tie various leaves that are used to cover lap-lap. The leaves can be harvested, the fiber removed and woven into rope.
Scientific name: Pandanus tectorius, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nefrei yassuk
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creeping herb with white flowers and red-orange fleshy fruit. (collection: Laurence Ramon #333)
Scientific name: Geophila repens, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nevau
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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: Johnson Noar
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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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ngata
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kind of cassava, produces small roots but the plant yields in 3 months after planting
Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nikriakei
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tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3019)
Example: Food: The ripe fruits (yellow or soft green) are consumed. Exudate: The yellow exudate of this plant is used as a light-duty glue.
Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nipar
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5082)
Example: Wood is very hard and good for making canoe. Wood is good to build house (house posts). Takes seeds from dried fruit, break them open, boil in water and collect oil that rises to the top. This oil used as massage oil. Rub oil from dried seeds in hair to kill lice.
Scientific name: Calophyllum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nua popo
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5158)
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: Martial Wahe
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nuirou
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type of flowering plant
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Ficus kajewskii, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nuiru
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tree along the road, short trunk. pale grey bark. short erected leaves. small orange figs. (collection: Laurence Ramon #334)
Scientific name: Ficus obliqua, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nurpiteu
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small tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4231)
Example: 1. Goats and cattle eat the leaves. 2. Wood is used to carve blunt-end arrow heads to hunt pidgeons.
Scientific name: Geniostoma rupestre, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nɨkɨrhanekin
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traditional medicine, cure for illness caused by Mwatiktiki (culture hero responsible for yam growth)
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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penesu
ring
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5022)
Example: The hard stem is used for house posts. To protect food in the earth oven from burning, use the peeled bark in large pieces to either wrap around banana leaves or as an extra layer.
Scientific name: Trema cannabina, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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tafha
tamakao
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Red Jungle Fowl (male)
Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Aneityum island, Vanuatu, Dec. 2018.
Scientific name: Gallus gallus, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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tangarua
tupa
ume
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Whitemargin Unicornfish, Ringtail Unicornfish
Example: Photo by Ross D. Robertson / Shorefishes of the Neotropics, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
Scientific name: Naso annulatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe
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yaku
Hawksbill Sea Turtle
Example: Photo by tonydiver / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org
Scientific name: Eretmochelys imbricata via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial wahe
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yesu