-aiu
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1. run, proceed, go off, fly (as a flag), swim, flow (as water); 2. have diarrhoea
Speaker: Martial wahe
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iaku iaku
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5141)
Scientific name: Geophila, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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irɨs irɨs
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Rough triggerfish, poisonous
Example: A poison fish which can sometimes be eaten. Photo by Ross Robertson / Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
Scientific name: Canthidermis maculata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe
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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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kapuapu
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tree, 3-4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2978)
Example: Agricultural: When this plant is in flower, it is said that an edible shellfish (Suefa) is ready to be harvested. Light: A dry portion of wood is also used by older men as a "lightstick". Fuel: Two dry sticks are rubbed together as firestarter, in the absence of matches.
Scientific name: Hedycarya dorstenioides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kaviatameta
kipori ia tasiapen
konapit
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5070)
Example: To get strength back in your body, take a double handful of leaves in 1/2 of 1.5 L bottle, drink all at once. Children take the seeds of this plant and put them together in a ball to play with.
Scientific name: Hanslia ormocarpoides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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konianaker
konkriakey
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tree, h = 8 m (collection: Laurence Ramon #320)
Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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konkriakey
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tree. mature green fruit with an abundant white latex, edible (collection: Laurence Ramon #321)
Scientific name: Garcinia pseudoguttifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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konuwak
mantocary
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kind of cassava, has yellow flesh—the name means “yellow curry”
Scientific name: Manihot esculenta, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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marawta
mijiro
nakoko
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sea hearse tree (Hernandia peltata), has red timber used for posts
(Bislama) napiripiri
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nakur
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2973)
Example: Agricultural: When this plant is in flower, it is said that taro (Nerei) and Ipomoea (Kwarei) are ready to plant.
Scientific name: Boehmeria platyphylla, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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namatamai
napkapi
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tree, 6-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3262)
Example: Feed pigs with the bark of this tree, and mix it with pig food as well. When eaten, this bark will help make the pig grow fat. When the fruits are ripe, they get sticky and this can be used to trap birds. Put these fruits around a cut up papaya, and put that in a clear place--when the birds come to eat the papaya they get stuck by the fruits and can be caught.
Scientific name: Pisonia umbellifera, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nashiapou
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5081)
Scientific name: Cyperus, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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naskou
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5071)
Example: Stem used for stick for Toka dance, due to it’s "hook" shape. . Axe handles and bows are made from this tree, very hard wood.
Scientific name: Croton insularis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nawamta
nawes
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5091)
Example: When the fruit is ripe, it is put in a pot with water. Fill half of a large bag (2 liters) with fruit, add this to 2 liters of water and macerate the fruit in the water. Drink 2 cups/day of this extract, morning and afternoon, for one week to make skin oily when it is too dry. This is necessary, for example, when a person drinks too much kava and thir skin dries out. Eat young fruits as a protection from someone who wants to do you harm. It is said that the fruit has 10 eyes, and can watch after you. Cover fish with leaves to cook in a fire. Crush and boil pieces of the stem and leaves and
Scientific name: Morinda citrifolia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nawha
nawirec
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kind of taro, has yellow flesh. It might be a different genus
Example: Good for boiling or making lap-lap
Scientific name: Xanthosoma sagittifolium or Alocacia macrorrhizos, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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neapar
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sparsely branched shrub, 1.5-2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3083)
Example: This plant is used as an ornamental, and is important to plant on graves. The color signifies a grave.
Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Jean Pascal 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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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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nisai-apran
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tree to 3 m, dbh 4 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4727)
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. 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 make you sick, a person can bathe with the leaves of this plant ...
Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal 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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nusua
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kind of yam, produces a tuber with a white flesh and red skin. It is easy to grow
Example: Soft when cooked
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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parangi
pawpawuk pusan
pirawa ~ firawa
serwok
terag
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shrub re-growing from fallen tree, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3003)
Example: Medicine: This plant is used to relieve itchiness. Green leaves are rubbed on an area to reduce the sensation.
Scientific name: Homalanthus nutans, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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terang
tipurpai
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tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2980)
Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of house. It is considered a strong wood.
Scientific name: Claoxylon fallax, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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yaren ia nui