-atate
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1. slide, crawl on one’s backside, crab-walk; 2. sit (as a baby who cannot yet walk); see -ate
Speaker: Wahe Martial
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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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kaipaip sei kuekau
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sprawling herb, with erect flowering stems (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3237)
Example: Children take the inflorescence of this plant and use it to find and poke lizards hiding in the bush. For treatment of an unspecified spiritual sickness, chew 2, 2" pieces of the stem to get rid of the sickness, spitting the material on the hair and body of an ill person; use only 1 time.
Scientific name: Cyathula prostrata, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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kapri iapri
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5110)
Example: Leaves fed to pig. Women string the seeds to make necklaces to sell. If the libido of a male is too strong ("bamboo is too strong"), mix juice from leaves and mix with 1/2 L water and drink 2 cups 1 day.
Scientific name: Leucaena leucocephala, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kareapɨn
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5161)
Example: Leaf mixed with Malaxis sp. (MJB 5154) to treat broken bone. Conjunctivitis (pink eye) drip juice from the stem intp the eye 2x day 3 days. Fertility: To cleanse womb squeeze on stem into bottle with water and drink 1L a day for four days to get pregannt.
Scientific name: Canavalia, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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kareng reng
kareng reng
karuapeï
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shrub. fruits and flowers directly on the stem or short inflorences. mature fruits white (about 1,5 cm l). Leaves with short petioles (about 1 to 3 cm) (collection: Laurence Ramon #331)
Scientific name: Cyrtandra sp2, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kawga ia-puka
konianaker
konuwak arwerew
kuanuaras
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terrestrial, climbing vine-like. (collection: Tom A. Ranker #2618)
Example: The rachis is used to fasten posts and rafters in traditional houses.
Scientific name: Lygodium reticulatum, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kuanuiru
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well branched tree, 10 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3036)
Example: Tools: The roots of this plant are used as a rope to fasten pig’s feet during the kastom ceremony. Landscape: This tree is planted as a shelter tree. Hunting: Pidgeons are known to eat the fruits of this tree. When hunters desire these birds, they will gather near to this tree. Fuel: The dried wood of this tree is used as a firewood.
Scientific name: Ficus kajewskii?, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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kwanatis
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[kwana:tɨs]
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herb to 75 cm tall, flowers purple (collection: Michael J. Balick #4731)
Example: The stems of this plant are bound together to make a local broom.
Scientific name: Stachytarpheta, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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makhum
makhum
makhum
makhum
nafweruk
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stage 2 in the development of coconuts. Succeeds tafa precedes kahimaregi
Example: drinking coconut (with soft meat and effervescent water)
Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nakgar
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species of magnolia tree
Example: Photo by Martial Wahe
Scientific name: Pittosporum campelli, Speaker: Martial Wahe
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nakur
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sparsely branched tree, 5-6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3088)
Example: This plant is used as a medicine for throat infections. Take 2, 2" pieces of the leaf, chew and swallow the juice, spit out the fibers, 3x daily, for as long as the throat hurts.
Scientific name: Polyscias scutellaria, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nanemenmeta
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kind of coconut, characterized by a round fruit with a reddish color on the top of the fruit
Scientific name: Cocos nucifera, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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napa
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kind of tree, Alphitonia zizyphoides, bark used as medicine to encourage the growth of pigs
Speaker: Martial 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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natuan
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large tree, 10-14 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3124)
Example: The wood of this plant smells bad. It is locally called a type of "stink wood." When young children get circumsized in kastom ways, to change the leaves for their bandage, take off the bark of this stem, take the inside part and scrape it--mix a handful of hte scrapings with grated coconut, put it together in a leaf, put it on the fire, heat it, when the coconut is browned, squeeze it together to get the "milk" that is yellow in color. When young children swim in saltwater to dry the cut from the circumcision, squeeze this on that area to help heal it. Another use is to tr
Scientific name: Dysoxylum amooroides, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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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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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: Emmanuel Maasi
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nek-ke-hmap
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[neke hmup]
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herb to 2 m tall, growing on the edge of a homestead (collection: Michael J. Balick #4723)
Example: This plant is used to lift a person up--take two leaves together and make a "seat" and put it under a person, they can then be lifted up by the two people with a leaf on each side of that person. Use the leaf of this species to wrap rolled leaves of wild tobaco, to protect it and keep it fresh and moist.
Scientific name: Piper methysticum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nisai-arman
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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
Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nisei
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type of flowering plant (collection: Michael J. Balick #5031)
Example: For Kastom ceremonies, use this plant to decorate the roots of Kava that is given to a chief. Also used in women’s grass skirt for kastom dance. When young girls are getting their first period (menustration), they wear a grass skirt from this plant to be fragrant (in order to cover any blood smell).
Scientific name: Euodia hortensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar
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noufoua
noufoua
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[nəfua]
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tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3010)
Example: Construction: The timber of this plant is used as a hardwood for any part of a house. It is considered one of the finest woods for this purpose. Ornamental: Branches of this tree are used to create carvings.
Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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nurap
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3039)
Example: Fuel: Dried wood of this plant is used as firewood. Not: This plant is considered the mountain form. There is another form, Nowaripen, found near the sea.
Scientific name: Ixora aneityensis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nuri-nanipuka
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herb growing on roadside along coast road. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3169)
Example: This plant is used by dogs who have an upset stomach. They go to eat this grass and then their stomachs feel better. Pigs feed on this grass.
Scientific name: Eleusine indica, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi
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nɨkafereng
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[nɨkafereŋ]
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kind of shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #2975)
Example: Animal Feed: The whole plant is fed to pigs to keep them fat and healthy. It is referred to as “pig medecine” and is given once per week.
Scientific name: Cyrtandra obovata, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe
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pangkor
pirawa ~ firawa
semanu
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kind of yam, produces a tuber with white flesh. It is somewhat smaller in size than most yams, and easy to grow
Example: Is used only for making lap-lap
Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar
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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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táhapwar
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plant with large banana-like leaves used to wrap for baking laplap, taro, fish (Heliconia sp.)
Speaker: Martial Wahe
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utu amramera