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waderei

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

wai meteuc

Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2018, Aneityum island.
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n. sweet potatoes

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2018, Aneityum island.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

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."
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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."

Scientific name: Sida rhombifolia, Speaker: Natu Kenneth

wakas

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.
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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.

Scientific name: Sida rhombifolia, Speaker: Wina Nasauman

waleh

n. a sweet potato

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 111

wametec

Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.
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n. sweet potato

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

wametec ahii

Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.
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n. white sweet potato

Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

wamhau

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

warogo

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n. kind of fish (folk name)

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

weite

adj. perennial (applied to water); also "etweite", "inweite"

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 171

widinahau

n. kind of banana

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119

wiwi

n. kind of breadfruit

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118

wodyperaha

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v. to fish (with a rod)

Speaker: Romario Yaufati

worago

Acanthurus lineatus http://fishbase.org/summary/Acanthurus-lineatus.html
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n. Lined surgeonfish

Example: Photo by Erik Schlogl / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Acanthurus lineatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chris Nevehev

wud yi encreucaig

v.a. beat so as to shake a tree

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 127

wudwud

n. kind of tree

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117

wukau

n. kind of taro

Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119