imjav
adj.
soft, over-ripe, as breadfruit.
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 82
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inceiwad
n.
the name of a poisonous plant
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 85
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incowos ates
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herb, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3676)
Scientific name: Hedychium coronarium, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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inhubej
n.
calabash
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 132
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inja
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n.
Red Jungle Fowl, all chickens
Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Aneityum island, Vanuatu, Dec. 2018.
Scientific name: Gallus gallus, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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ink
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vine, growing in disturbed forest. Fruits green. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3470)
Example: A man named Johnnie (Reuben’s grandfather) brought this vine to Aneityum to use it as a rope to tie objects. The ripe fruits are used to paint the face and hands and children make drawings from this dye.
Scientific name: Passiflora suberosa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inmadeded
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
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inmehtit
n.
breadfruit crop in October
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 87
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inmunuka
n.
thunder
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114
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intate a nelgo waj
intohoc
invid
n.
the day before yesterday
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89
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inwoudec
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liana climbing on large Dillenia tree, growing in primary forest at edge of river. flower white. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3677)
Example: If a person is building a temporary house and has no other way of attaching the poles, collect the vine of this species, roll it a bit to break the fiber, heat it in a figure 8 form and then use for tying poles while warm.
Scientific name: Jasminum didymum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inyebec
inyiciñpa
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tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4143)
Scientific name: Syzygium richii, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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itaho
adj.
inland
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 90
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kidie ~ kithi
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shrub, 1. 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3205)
Example: 1. Plant this tree at each of the four corners of a fence to keep your pigs in and protect against a type of bad luck. If a man sleeps with his wife who is having her period, and then the man goes to see the pig, the pig will suffer and not grow strong and not have many piglets. So the presence of this plant controls against bad luck that others can bring to your pig farm. 2. This is an ornamental plant grown around the home. Sticks of this plant are planted around the outside of the garden and grow to create a fence, to protect the crops and keep them healthy, as well as protect the crops from people that are not cleansed in the ritual way. 3. This species is also planted around the house to add color and is very decorative in general. 4. For fertilizer in taro holes for water taro. For baly(?) taro and water taro, lay these flat on the surface of the charcoal, then lay the food – taro, cassava – on this and cover with another layer, add hot stones and cook. 4. Pig food, goat food.
Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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kitlel
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teapot (probably loanword from "kettle")
Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, April 2016.
Speaker: Osiani Nerian
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nadeij
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herb to 1. 5 m tall, flowers yellow (collection: Michael J. Balick #4894)
Example: When seeds are grey-white, they are ripe. Pick these and make decorations out of them such as necklaces. Women make these necklaces.
Scientific name: Coix lacryma-jobi, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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naerek
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3492)
Example: 1. Used for firewood. Whole plant used to make a broom for sweeping by tying the small branches together. The very topmost leaves are used when planting kava, as a “superstition” you hold a lead between your big and second toes when tamping the earth down for a kava plant, to give power to earth so kava grows well. 2. This plant is used to make a local broom. Collect a number of branches, let them dry in the sun--the leaves will fall off--then tie the branches together with a piece of Pandanus leaf or any other vine that is handy.
Scientific name: Leucopogon cymbulae, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nalgaij
n.
kind of sugarcane; also "inhelegaij"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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nanec
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tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3633)
Example: To cook Alocasia (wild taro), use the dry wood of this plant as firewood. The leaves of this plant are also used to line the earth oven on top of the food and on bottom of the food to insulate it from the high heat of cooking.
Scientific name: Canthium odoratum, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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naparap
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epiphytic fern on main tree trunk, growing in dry forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3504)
Example: This is a medicine to treat fresh cuts. Take the leaf of this species, macerate it and add 1 tablespoon of water and wrap in a Macaranga leaf, and then heat it on a fire. After heating, puncture the side of the Macaranga leaf and drop the hot juice on the fresh cut. This is said to be good before going to see the Dispensary or if you do not have access to a health care professional.
Scientific name: Pyrrosia confluens, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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napdaj
napleaig
n.
kind of tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 117
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napod
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tree to 10 m, dbh 30 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4900)
Example: Before there was soap, people took the young leaves and crushed them on a stone to make suds for washing clothes in the river. This tree has a very hard wood and can be used for house posts. The sap is reddish and the bark boiled in water until it is red, consumed 2-3 times daily (1 cup each time) until the person feels well. The condition treated is that when a menstruating woman has sex with a man, and he feels tired and lethargic, drinking this tonic makes him feel stronger.
Scientific name: Alphitonia zizyphoides, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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napojev
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tree to 5 m, dbh 10 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4889)
Example: The leaves are used to cover meat when baking it in a stone oven (inmawum). This will soften the meat and keep it moist. Used when other species of this genus are not available, for example if you are in the bush.
Scientific name: Polyscias cissodendron, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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naridjai o un
n.
east
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 146
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narpomyiv
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epiphytic orchid, growing in dense rainforest. Flowers orange. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4113)
Example: 1. Children often take the leaves of this plant and blow across the surface of a taut leaf to make a whistle sound. Older folks say this blowing invited rain.
Scientific name: Liparis condylobulbon, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nau
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a plant, with upright clumping. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #25)
Example: 1. To cure the sea snake (nispev) curse that causes missed periods. First the husband must combine 4 young leaves of incispev and 4young leaves of nafanu and mash and squueze the juice into a small bamboo (1-1.5 inch diameter) The nafanu is important because it is a plant that connects to the sea. Use wildcane leaves cover the bamboo closed. Go to the sick person and unwrap the snake from her. Start from the top and let the woman drink a small part of the potion then wash her with the mixture, making sure to wash head, elbows, knees, feet, and belly. Then take a leaf of naha and break it over
Scientific name: Bambusa vulgaris
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naurakiti
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herb. Swamp areas. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #8)
Example: 1. Cervical pain and to return it to normal size - Get a handful of Naurakiti and boil it in a pot of water. This can also be done by rubbing the handful of leaves together and squeezing out the juice into the boiling water but the leaves do not go inside. Sit in this for 2 hours or until cold for 1 a day for a week. 2. Medicine: leaf juice put on fresh cut to stop bleeding. Stomachache, headache – use 1 handful of leaves, squeeze these, put in cup, put in some water and drink it 1x day. 3. Women menstruation that will not stop, take 1 handful of leaves into a cup of water and drink 1x day for 3 days. 4. If a person’s joints are sore, take a handful of leaves, crush them and rub on the sore joints. Some people don’t like to use it internally as it can make some people sick, especially small children, but others say it is OK to use.
Scientific name: Ageratum conyzoides, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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neaig milmat
n.
a green coconut
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118
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necemas moso
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terrestrial plant on forest floor, growing in disturbed forest. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3483)
Example: 1. This is a "message plant" that signifies that there has been a death. The person holds it or puts it on their head, goes to another person’s house and hands it to the person they wish to convey the message to, without saying anything and that person knows that someone has died. It can also be handed to that person. The person receiving the message then asks "who" and is told the deceased person’s name. 2. Use it to produce more fog on top of mountain – use w/ another plant, nap̃at (GMP 3268) – put these in a hole on the sacred stone to ferment as it fills with water. After it rots there will be a lot of fog. Name of stone = NAEMOSO. So the fog helps keep the plants moist and growing well.
Scientific name: Selaginella firmula, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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necjop̃dak
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prostrate creeping vine along coastlines. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #10)
Example: 1. To cure rubbush blood - Take a handfull f leaves of any age, pound it into a cupfull of water, squeeze the juice and drink when woman feels pain in head or inside the body or when the inside of the body is hot. Drink this once a day until the pain goes away. 2. To cure excessive bleeding after giving birth - boil naojapdak leaves (2-16) in seawater until leaves are soft and the water is brown. Sit on this water. 3. To close the cervix - boil 2 naojapdak leaves in water and bath in it. 4. Medicine: Smash leaves 1 handful, into cup and add a small amount of water to treat constipation—1 cup for children; 1.5 litres for adults. 5. Stomachache: same treatment, will clear bowel. 6. For leg sores, collect whole plant, put in water – a pool of water for 1 week, then use to dip sore as on leg into it for 10-15 minutes cure the sore.
Scientific name: Vigna marina, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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negejwaj
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Island imperial pigeon
Example: Photo by Tony Morris, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr
Scientific name: Ducula pistrinaria, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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nehlaiju
n.
the south wind
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 113
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nehtumta
n.
land newly planted with taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 99
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neiang mesei
neijin nij
n.
cliff
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 135
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nejecjeñ
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small tree, 5 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4059)
Scientific name: Leukosyke australis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nejev
nekeiatimi
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terrestrial fern, growing on rocky area in secondary forest above the river. Leaves c. 3 m long. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3654)
Example: The leaf is wrapped around the head as an adornment by both men and women. If a person gets burned by a fire, scrape the petiole of this plant and squeeze juice on the wound to cool and heal it. Use as long as needed. The ancestors are said to have cooked the stump of this plant in an earth oven, over 2-3 nights, and then ate it. It is said to have no taste but was more of a famine food during periods of drought.
Scientific name: Angiopteris evecta, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nekrei
nelaijo
n.
wind-related term; no definition provided
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 114
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nelm̃ai
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tree to 8 m, dbh 10 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4863)
Example: Fiber: Collect the stems of this plant, peel off the outer bark, soak (ret) in seawater for 1 week, then put stone on top of it-the fibers are loosened by the retting, peel them off and hang in the sun to dry and bleach. Weave small baskets, grass skirts and other things from this fiber. When sticks are placed in areas of the sea, shells are attracted to these sticks and people can collect the shells used for adornment--the animals in the shells like to eat the material on the sticks. Dried fruits of this plant are eaten by birds.
Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nemijcopau
n.
kind of palm
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118
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nemtav
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tree to 20 m, dbh 50 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4910)
Scientific name: Dysoxylum molle, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nhujac
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epiphyte on branch of Syzygium tree, growing in secondary forest along trail above river. dry fruits. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3661)
Scientific name: Phreatia hypsorrhynchos, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nidincai
n.
balsam; resin
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 127, 178
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niditau
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tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3636)
Example: The green fruits are edible, as are the young leaf apices--cook these in water and eat them. The wood is used for temporary houses, for example, to provide shade in a garden. For planting taro, or any root crop, sharpen the end of a stick of this tree and use it for making holes, particuarly in river sand where some crops are planted. This tree grows near the river and is an indication that this land is good for agriculture. The wood from the tree is very good for firewood. Name means "who are you." Plant used as an indicator of a tabu place. Take a branch and put it where another person is building or gardening and there is a dispute over that area of land. When this plant is placed there the person who is using the land should stop working it.
Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nigehagid
n.
kind of banana
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118
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nijcel
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tree, 8-9 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3655)
Example: If the preferred banana leaves are not available to wrap food for cooking, then use young leaves of this species and tie taro and fish for cooking. Take 4-5 leaves and wrap the food with the leaves. Tie a rope around the food and tie them all together using any strong vine. They can then be cooked over an open fire.
Scientific name: Dillenia neoebudica, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nilpodou
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herb, growing at edge of garden area. Flowers yellow. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3599)
Example: This is for a medicinal tea to give energy to a person who is not feeling well. Collect a handful of young stem apices and boil in 2-3 cups of water. Drink warm to help the body be strong and healthy. It is also good to treat diarrhea. When a person feels well again, stop this treatment but they can also drink this 1x daily, once before breakfast or before lunch, as a healthful tea.
Scientific name: Bidens pilosa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nirom̃gei
nisiug
n.
a tree, the leaves of which have no center rib
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 103
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nisyeg
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tree, 7 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3521)
Example: 1. The inner bark of this plant is used as a dye or paint to provide a brown color. Boil the inner bark in a pot with a shirt and the color of the shirt will be changed to brown. 2. For toothache, people take the inner bark and mix it with sea water, and then rinse the tooth with this mixture to remove the pain. 3a. People macerate the leaves and the bark and when the tide is low, spread this in a pool of water to poison the sea shells that are edible. When they die, the eyes of this organism comes above the sand, indicating where they are, and people harvest and eat them. 3b. To attract and collect clam – NIPJINUMU – scrape bark in a pool of sea water where the clams are attracted immediately and can be collected, coming up from the sand. 4. Firewood, unspecified medical use.
Scientific name: Acacia simplex, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nitetan
n.
a fern
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 120
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nitit a nelgo waj
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knots where rope is tying pieces of canoe together
Example: Photo by K. David Harrison, Dec. 2018, Aneityum island.
Speaker: Romario Yaufati
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nohoanma
n.
breadfruit; also "nohwanma"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 104
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nopna
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Red-Bellied Fruit Dove
Example: Sub-adult Red-bellied Fruit Dove. Photo by Papier K / Wikimedia Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Scientific name: Ptilinopus greyii, Speaker: Jack Keitadi
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noragidi
n.
Ageratum conyzoides L.
Example: juice squeezed from leaves; wounds
Speaker: Bradacs 2011, p. 440
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nowo
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kind of flowering plant (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4749)
Scientific name: Dysoxylum bijugum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nudto
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small tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3452)
Example: 1a. The stem of this plant is used to make a spear, as it is always straight and very strong. It is a small growing plant, just right for length of a spear. 1b. Make a spear for fishing, peel bark, heat stem, affix points to end. 2. Name is the name of a fish. 3. Rafters for roof.
Scientific name: Podocarpus neriifolius, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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numujced
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terrestrial fern, 0. 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3577)
Example: Join two of the inrolled fronds together at the part where the frond is opening (the tip that is curled) such that the leaves are held together by their unfolding growing tips. Place this along the path that is frequented by a wild pig (they travel along paths) and when the pig passes these two leaves, and is chased by a hunter’s dogs, these leaves in this formation are said to sap some of the pig’s energy and thus allow the dogs to catch up with it. This was explained to Tony by another person who mentioned it as a sort of magical power possessed by this type of fern.
Scientific name: Blechnopsis orientalis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nup inceen
n.
the rib of a leaf
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 105
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nwujvaeñ
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vine climbing on Myristica fatua, growing in primary rainforest. Fruits green. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3615)
Example: This vine is used to make rope. Collect the stem, roll it in a figure 8, heat it on a fire and tie it on a house while the vine is still hot. Weave a ?? net to catch fish.
Scientific name: Smilax vitiensis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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tapasetarayi
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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tatalaha
n.
kind of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 119
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upuhasin
n.
sprouts
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 188
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wiwi
n.
kind of breadfruit
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 118
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yetse
v.n.
to go down
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 109
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