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-arisi
-arkini
iaku-iaku (iaku-iaku)
kamkariamkari
t.o. Jumping Spider
Example: Photo by flecksy / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5072)
Example: House posts, rafters, good for building in Tanna. Scrape stem in cup and squeeze with water into a glass to give someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem to fill a cup, mix with water, 1 liter /day for 7 days. Shark causes bleeding, maybe the person ate too much shark. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5065)
Example: Tricks the rat, sees seeds from bottom, but when climbs herb, can’t see it--so name refers to tricking the rat. If a person drinks too much kava over many years, boil 5-6 whole plant for 15 minutes in water (1.5 L) and put in pot, drink 3 cups, 1x / day for 3 days to detoxify the effects of kava. A person who has drunk too much kava over a long time feels it in the body--weak, hard to wake early, appetite is low, body feels heavy.
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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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koniapit
konuwak
Orange-spotted grouper
Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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makhum
Ember parrotfish, redlip parrotfish
Example: Photo by Derek Keats, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Tripletail wrasse
Example: Photo by John Turnbull, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Black jack (deep sea)
Example: Photo by John Turnbull, 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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[nakoŋ har] n. tree to 4 m tall, 25 cm dbh (collection: Michael J. Balick #4734)
Example: For Kastom ceremony, chew the leaves with the white endosperm of coconut and then rub on body to enjoy the fragrant aroma. Sometimes when a person is working hard, and are tired, they take this leaf, mix it with ground coconut and wash in salt water. When planting yams, a bunch of leaves with this plant are mixed with wild cane and burned, and the ash put int he ground as one plants the yams.
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Ornate emperor
Example: Photo by Digital Archives of Taiwan / via catalog.digitalarchi License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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n. type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5039)
Example: This is the female type of 5037. Leaf is used to cover the top ridge of a roof on a house. Lasts 5 or more years. Women use the leaf for grass skirts. Take leaves, twist, tie in a line, dry in sun and then use to make skirt. Leaves have a nice fragrance.
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nifar
nisai-arman
n. shrub to 1.5 m, flowers white (collection: Michael J. Balick #4728)
Example: The leaves of this plant are used to make a women’s grass skirt. Men use these leaves to put in a band around the arm as decoration. These leaves are also used to tie a kava root for a ceremony in the nakamal. For kastom ceremony, take coconut endosperm, chew with this leave and covery body. It makes the body smell very nice. When a person has a fever, mix this leaf with other leaves including Annona muricata and Citrus species. Then the person sits over a steaming pot and inhales it to reduce the fever and symptoms. If you need to go to a "tabu" place, where the spirit can mak
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n. terrestrial tree, growing in dense cloud forest. flowers white to yellow (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4214)
Example: 1. The bole of this tree is used to make end posts for cyclone houses (kuipé). It is considered a strong and special wood for this purpose. 2. Stems are used as a traditional digging stick (kaker) when planting taro or kava. A smaller stick is used for the latter. 3. The wood from this tree can be used to make long-lasting fence posts.
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n. tree to 7 m tall, dbh 49 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4733)
Example: Wood from this tree is good for making house posts, as it is very strong. The wood is considered as excellent firewood. To restore energy when a person is tired, chew the leaf, swallow the juice, and spit out the leaf--it will make the person feel better.
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nɨrái
pawpawuk
Caper Gull
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penesu
Common parrotfish, palenose parrotfish
Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Pickhandle barracuda
Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Bulbnose unicornfish, humpnose unicornfish (deep sea)
Example: Photo by Jean-Lou Justine / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
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Gray unicornfish (deep sea)
Example: Photo by J. E. Randall, 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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