-árupwi
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1. spear, stick, pierce, throw (an elongated object); 2. put down, insert, stick something into the ground, plant (as a tree), join; 3. clap, applaud, pat, ringbark (as to kill a tree); 4. be proud, sassy, disrespectful, preen (because of praise)
Speaker: Wahe Martial
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kapa
kapapu
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tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3102)
Example: People use this plant for firewood
Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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koutkout
kuanuares
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liana growing into canopy of dysoxylum, in open (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3034)
Scientific name: Lygodium reticulatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kwanepit
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herb growing on roadside along coast road. flowers bluish-purple. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3164)
Example: The leaves of this plant are used to treat diarrhea. Take a handful of leaves, chew them and suck out the liquid and swallow it, then spit out the fiber and all that remains in the mouth. Also known to be good as a cattle feed.
Scientific name: Desmodium canum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kwankumah
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[kwan kuman]
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shrub, 1-1.5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3130)
Example: A person would never use a food knife when cutting this tree as it will make that person hungry, which is also the name of the tree. So people do not like to cut this tree.
Scientific name: Psychotria milnei, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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minim
nakongar
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[nako̤ŋhar]
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tree, 7-7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3100)
Example: This plant has an aroma, and people are said to take the leaf and squeeze it on them in a shower or while bathing with the purpose of keeping evil spirts away. In particular, this can be used when a person is doing a Toka dance, or when that person is visiting a cemetary, burying a person--to avoid having a problem with the spirits. This can also be used with Euodia hortensis (Plunkett et al. 3077) or alone.
Scientific name: Pittosporum campbellii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nanen
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[nanim]
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tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2986)
Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Hunting: Flying foxes and pidgeons are known to eat the fruit of this plant. As a result, hunters will cluster about these trees to hunt these animals.
Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nare
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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.
Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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navri
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5049)
Example: Used for house posts, rafters, and other construction-- very good for building in Tanna. Scrape the stem and put the pieces into a cup. Squeeze these pieces through with water, pour into a glass, and give to someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem used to fill a cup, and drink one liter a day forone week. It is thought that shark meat causes bleeding. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".
Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nawes
nepekesi
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5035)
Example: Root is sold to earn money, as perfume and oil is from this. Grandparents used to dry the wood over a cooking fire in a kitchen when a person would get the flu. To help, they’d take dried and heated wood, scrape one cup’s worth into hot water, and then breathe over the steam bath. Drink water afterwards. Do thhis once a day for three days.
Scientific name: Santalum austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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niar
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5092)
Example: Wood is hard to make house posts. Stem to make bow for hunting birds, fruit bat.
Scientific name: Casuarina equisetifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nɨmu mɨru
pampu
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bamboo (used to refer to several introduced species)
(Bislama) pampu
Scientific name: Bislama, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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penesu
peragi
pirawa ~ firawa
pranawhi sei kijirimak sa namritaik
pringsiwir
ruareng
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shrub, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3155)
Example: To treat constipation, squeeze a handful of leaves into a half cup of room temperature water, and 10 minutes later the bowel will move. It is said to taste nasty.
Scientific name: Clerodendrum inerme, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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Takiaew sei tasi
tamekin
tarakisi
tukraus
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[təkrowus]
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once-branched tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3139)
Example: Stem used to plant kava (use it like a spade) but even when you have a spade, you should still use this to dig the hole. The leaf is used to make laplap, a food made from taro or yam with coconut and other foods added. Take the leaf and wrap the laplap and then roast the package on the fire or cook the leaf in a pot of water.
Scientific name: Cordyline fruticosa, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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tumien
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[tʰãmijen]
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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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warakou pirei
yangawhir ~ yaniawir
yapha
yapha iwis