-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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-árihi
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1. tie up, attach, bind, wrap in leaves (as food to bake), wear (something tied on); 2. carry on a pole with a man taking each end, carry on one’s back
Speaker: Martial wahe
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kaimeregy
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kind of coconut, produces a medium-sized, round fruit
Example: When a person drinks the water from this fruit, it does not seem very sweet. The local name refers to “expired,” meaning that the fruit has expired and therefore the juice is not very sweet
Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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karsapag
kesi
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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.
Scientific name: Carica papaya, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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konambre
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5153)
Example: To make tattoo, draw design and then take youngest emerging stem and rub along design. Follow design and it will burn a design in your skin. Birds eat fruits as do fruit bats.
Scientific name: Alchornea scandens, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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konianaker
koutkout
kuetawirua
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5135)
Example: When this plant grows to 2m, peel bark and put it in salt water to rett the stem. To do this, tie the stems in budles and cover the bundle with a stone in the sea. After one week, rett the stem by pulling out the strong fibers and discarding the rest. Dry the fibers, then make a grass skirt from this. The leaves can be crushed and used as a styptic for wounds to stop bleeding.
Scientific name: Urena lobata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kwanapa
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kind of yam, has a round root, with white, soft, sweet flesh
Example: Only used for making lap-lap
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nakogar
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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.
Scientific name: Pittosporum campbellii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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namatamai
nanes
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1. kind of tree, 2. small plant with red flowers (var. of nanas), the sap is dangerous it can cause a rash
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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natan
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5105)
Example: Stem used for sawn timber.
Scientific name: Virola surinamensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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natgamera
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petrophyte, growing in deep shade (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3115)
Scientific name: (moss), Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nei
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psetl-like stick used to mash the kava in the strainer leaves, and to observe the taboo on touching kava with the hands
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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newar
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5042)
Example: Leaf used to feed pigs--when looking for dried coconuts, gather this. The seeds are edible put them directly on fire and cook for 3-5 minutes.
Scientific name: Canavalia rosea, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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newou pɨsir
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: 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 and can go anywh
Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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noukwerang
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tree, growing in disturbed forest/garden area. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3109)
Example: People use the seeds and stem of this tree for fish poison. Pound the seed and wood and put it in a pool in the ocean at low tide. Fish are stunned and can be harvested.
Scientific name: Barringtonia asiatica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nukune-nig
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kind of taro, might be another genus of “taro”. It has a special stone that is specific to this variety
Example: Roasted or boiled for eating
Scientific name: Xanthosoma sagittifolium or Alocacia macrorrhizos, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nukwaskwas
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terrestrial; leaves 1.0-1.5 m long. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2626)
Scientific name: Hypolepis elegans, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nukwesi
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5033)
Example: Young leaves edible, boil with water or cook in coconut milk. Cook fruit in boiling water, then cook in coconut milk. Cook fruits for 6-10 minutes. He was taught this by his grandparents who showed him how to eat wild plants; his grandfather wasa historically significant person in the Port Resolution area, especially in reference to medicine.
Scientific name: Ficus wassa, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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nuwas
nɨkinhapus
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kind of tree (used for bows to hunt flying fox, and for traditional medicine), Goats like to eat the leaves.
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nɨre
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ginger, used in cooking and in tea, used medicinally in tea to clear lungs and throat phlegm
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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pan
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Pacific Reef Heron (dark)
Example: Photo by Arthur Chapman, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr
Scientific name: Egretta sacra, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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pasuwa
phumha tasiapen
ring
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tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2992)
Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood. Hunting: Pidgeons are known to eat the fruit of this plant. As a result, hunters will cluster about these trees to hunt this animal. Construction: The timber of the plant is used to make roof members of local houses.
Scientific name: Parasponia andersonii, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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siwir ~ sivur
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Coconut Lorikeet
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Trichoglossus haematodus massena, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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Takiaew sei tasi
tapatou
tapatou
teki kusan
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kind of shell. Possibly family Turbinidae.
Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2017
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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tikirkak
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: 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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yaku
yapha