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waderei
n. kind of taro
bookmarkwai meteuc
![Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2018, Aneityum island.](/media/aneityum/pix/KDH_Vanuatu_Dec2018_9194-scaled.jpg)
wakas
![If a person has the flu, collect the fruits and chew and swallow them. Chew 3 fruits in the morning for 3 days. Take a handful of leaves, still on branches, and boil them in a half liter of water, for 15 minutes. Drink 1 cup daily for 5 days or until the sickness "goes down."](/media/aneityum/pix/MJB_4891_MJB_544-scaled.jpg)
n. herb to 0. 75 m, flowers yellow. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4891)
Example: If a person has the flu, collect the fruits and chew and swallow them. Chew 3 fruits in the morning for 3 days. Take a handful of leaves, still on branches, and boil them in a half liter of water, for 15 minutes. Drink 1 cup daily for 5 days or until the sickness "goes down."
bookmarkwakas
![1. To make baby grow strong - Take 16 tops of the plant, no flowers, and squeeze them into baby’s bath water. Bath baby in the water and let it dry on the baby. Don’t towel dry. 2. Medicine – take a large leaf, crush and rub it but don’t break it – just soften it and open it and cover the fresh cut with it – leave it there to heal the wound. Keep changing it until the wound gets healed. 3. For headache and fever – flu – take branches with no flowers or seeds, boil it 15 minutes to extract brownish juice, drink 1 cup hot 2, per day – morning and evening for 5 days. 4. The fruits – 7 – chew and swallow for stomachache. 5. Tie stems for broom.](/media/aneityum/pix/AAM_34_AAM_34-scaled.jpg)
n. herb. Found along intra village path. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #34)
Example: 1. To make baby grow strong - Take 16 tops of the plant, no flowers, and squeeze them into baby’s bath water. Bath baby in the water and let it dry on the baby. Don’t towel dry. 2. Medicine – take a large leaf, crush and rub it but don’t break it – just soften it and open it and cover the fresh cut with it – leave it there to heal the wound. Keep changing it until the wound gets healed. 3. For headache and fever – flu – take branches with no flowers or seeds, boil it 15 minutes to extract brownish juice, drink 1 cup hot 2, per day – morning and evening for 5 days. 4. The fruits – 7 – chew and swallow for stomachache. 5. Tie stems for broom.
bookmarkwaleh
n. a sweet potato
bookmarkwamhau
n. kind of taro
bookmarkweite
adj. perennial (applied to water); also "etweite", "inweite"
bookmarkwidinahau
n. kind of banana
bookmarkwiwi
n. kind of breadfruit
bookmarkworago
![Acanthurus lineatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Acanthurus-lineatus.html](/media/aneityum/pix/FOA_AcanthLineatErikSchlogl-scaled.jpg)
n. Lined surgeonfish
Example: Photo by Erik Schlogl / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia
bookmarkwud yi encreucaig
v.a. beat so as to shake a tree
bookmarkwudwud
n. kind of tree
bookmarkwukau
n. kind of taro
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