Raga

numeral 800, eight hundred

Speaker: James Ure & Presley Dovo

noun kind of creeper

Scientific name: Canavalia cathatica,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo by Chung-Yen / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC-SA via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Canavalia rosea,
Speaker: Presley Dovo

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo by Brett Lawrence / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Canavalia cathartica,
Speaker: Presley Dovo

noun kind of creeper

Example: Photo by Brett Lawrence / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Canavalia cathatica,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun moon

Speaker: Presley Dovo

noun March: (“moon is not quite full”). Resources available but will soon be gone. Waves are longer, but do not cause destruction. Trees and plants grow well but a small number of leaves fall off the tree (=“gai ram mamaririga”)

noun waxing crescent moon (moon appears)

noun waning gibbous moon (dark moon when the girls are afraid to go outside alone at night because men might grab hold of them and harass them in the dark.)

noun waxing half-moon (moon is split into half)

noun waning crescent moon (the moon remains from the morning throughout the day until evening)

noun Waning half-moon (the place is getting dark)

noun waxing gibbous moon (moon is round throughout the day)

Example: See also "mwa ngal matan bageo"

noun full moon

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo by Günter Baumann / Earth.com, License: CC-BY-NC via earth.com

Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa,
Speaker: Presley Dovo

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo by National Tropical Botanical Gardens / University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, License: CC-BY-NC via botany.hawaii.edu

Scientific name: Diospyros samoensis,
Speaker: Presley Dovo

noun mountain

Speaker: Presley Dovo

noun kind of plant

Scientific name: Vernonia cinerea,
Speaker: Presley Dovo

noun kind of plant

Scientific name: Vernonia cinerea

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo by allen83059 / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Vernonia cinerea

noun kind of plant

Scientific name: Setaria spachelata,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Scientific name: Setaria sphacelata,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo by Jimmy Whatmore / iNaturalist, License: CC0 via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Setaria sphacelata,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo by wangleeping / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Imperata cylindrica,
Speaker: Presley Dovo

noun kind of plant

Scientific name: Imperata cylindrica

noun kind of tree

Example: Photo by Susan J. Hewitt / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Scientific name: Cordia dichotoma,
Speaker: Presley Dovo

noun kind of plant

Scientific name: Gardenia tannaensis,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Scientific name: Gardenia tannaensis,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo by Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle / JSTOR, License: CC-BY-NC via plants.jstor.org

Scientific name: Gardenia tannaensis,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Scientific name: Ixofora trifora,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo by Martin Bennett / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Ixora triflora,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Scientific name: Brophyllum pinnatum,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo by 灶馬 / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Bryophyllum pinnatum,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant, rope is pagpag

Scientific name: Polyscias cissodendron,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant, rope is pagpag

Example: Photo by Peter Woodard / Wikipedia, License: CC-BY-SA via Wikipedia

Scientific name: Polyscias cissodendron,
Contributor: Philemon Ala

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo from NYBG Steere Herbarium; T. A. Ranker 2305 via C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium

Scientific name: Sterculia banksiana,
Speaker: Presley Dovo

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo by fitriamaharani0600 / iNaturalist, License: CC-BY-NC via inaturalist.org

Scientific name: Bixa orellana,
Speaker: Presley Dovo

noun kind of plant

Example: Photo from NYBG Steere Herbarium; T. A. Ranker 2305 via C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium

Scientific name: Sterculia banksiana

mythical people representing the second stage in the creation of humans. Said to be small (dwarfs), dark-skinned people of Pentecost Island, created by the vatu (stone people). Said to hide in caves and live in Lolbuavatu village