aihon
v.
to spit on leaves; to chew leaves for sickness
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 56
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araho
n.
made of branches
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 130
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auoc
adj.
unripe
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 196
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ecetaig jai
v.
to come out, as banana fruit
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 72
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ehla
adj.
unripe; also "ehlai"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 74
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ehlek
v.
to seek food, as taro; to gather, to reap
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 74
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ehlili
v.
to burn ground for planting
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 74
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ehmehma
adj.
healed, applied to wounds; ripe; yellow
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 77
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ehpai
v.
to peel off bark
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 75
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ehyiyihi
v.
to teaze, as cotton; also "ehyeiyihi"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 76
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elgai
v.n.
expand as a leaf
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 148
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elum
v.
to begin to form, as fruit
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 77
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ereuc
v.
to shake a branch; to make fruit fall. pl: "ereucereuc"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 78
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etgei
v.
to weed
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 79
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etti
v.
to split leaves
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 80
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eucte
v.
to begin to blossom
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 80
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eucupupu (nieg)
v.
to swell, as reeds when near blossoming
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 80
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hui asan
v.
trees; fruit
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 81
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idahod
v.
to sprout largely; also "ujipsotan"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 81
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idi
adj.
stringy, watery, as taro; also "ede"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 81
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ilihilo
adj.
soft, as an infant’s foot, or new leaves.
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 82
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inciñpiñti
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shrub to 1 m, flowers white. Growing on ridge of pine forest. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4980)
Example: The leaves are good mulch for taro plants. The stems are used for firewood.
Scientific name: Geniostoma rupestre, Speaker: Tony Keith
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incoujahao
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shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3548)
Example: The forked stick of this plant is used as a pole to hold the outrigger on a canoe. Children blow the small fruits of this plant through the hollow petioles of the papaya leaf or a hollowed bamboo stem as a game. As an aphrodisiac, two handfuls of the leaves of this species are boiled in fresh water and men drink these for 7 days. The next week they will be "strong." People cannot have sex while they are drinking this remedy, but then the next week when they have finished the treatment, they will be "very strong."
Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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incoujahau
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tree, 6-8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3218)
Example: 1. Take a handful of leaves, squeeze with the hands into 1/2 liter of water, drink when tired; said to open the "blood nerves" and to purify the blood and make the muscles of the male sexual organ strong. 2a. When a person is planting watermelons in the garden, as the vines grow, split them and perforate the vines with a sharpened stick. This practice is said to ensure that the watermelons will be as prolific as the seeds in Vitex. 2b. If you plant vines in your garden like cucumber, beans, melons, pierce the stem with a small sliver of this branch and it will make the vine have more fruit.
Scientific name: Vitex trifolia, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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ingejei wou
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tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3647)
Example: 1. The straight poles of this plant are sharpened and used to plant kava, and only for kava. Not used for planting other crops. 2. Special for catching eels in fresh water, poke stick with leaves into hole where eel lives and they don’t like it so they come out and you catch them, by cutting with knife.
Scientific name: Maoutia diversifolia, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inleuc nipji nakevai
n.
a bolt of pandanus leaf
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 86
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inlop̃otjap
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tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3621)
Example: Good for covering laplap or stone oven. Remove hot stones, put leaves down, then food, then hot stones, then put the leaves down again to cover everything.
Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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inmal ahapol
n.
a group of cultivations
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 87
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inmejei
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tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3686)
Example: This tree is a source of sawn timber.
Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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inmerei
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tree to 2 m tall,dbh 40 com (collection: Michael J. Balick #4877)
Example: To treat a local disease (that causes pain in the stomach) called "Namya," peel off the outer bark, collect 1 handful of inner bark, boil with 1/2 liter of water, drink warm, 3 cups/daily, for 3 days. At that point the person will feel that "the weakness is no longer in the body." After 3 days of treatment the pain in the stomach goes away. Wood is used for posts; leaves for compost for holes that people will plant taro in--line the bottom of the hole before placing soil and taro in it.
Scientific name: Acacia spirorbis, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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inmerei hau
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tree, 6 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3692)
Scientific name: Acacia spirorbis, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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inpa u natmas
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tree. Growing near village. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #13)
Example: 1. To cure toothache when pregnant - Take the inner bark from Intejed and boil it in a pot of seawater (about 1 liter) along with 2 leaves from each of inpoutnatmas, narayag, nahayag, and nelmaha. Boil until juice is visibly leaving the plants. Put this water into your mouth and hold it there for 2-3 minutes. Do this this with one cup in the morning, 1 cup in the afternoon, and 1 cup in the evening. 2. This plant is special and people grew it – use it after burial of a chief – wash hands with these leaves and water to cleanse the people who buried the chief. 3. Name means belongs to the spirit
Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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inrosi
n.
a clearing of bush or reeds
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 88
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inteses
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parasite in tree, flowers orange with reddish base. Growing in secondary forest. (collection: Michael J. Balick #5000)
Example: This plant is said to have a type of magical use. Young men take one node of the stem of this plant and use it in an unspecified way to attract young women.
Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Tony Keith
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inteses
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parasite on branches of Geissois denhamii tree, growing in dense rainforest. Flowers orange-red. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4028)
Example: 1. This plant is known to kill other trees and is regarded as a parasite. 2. The plant is related to kastom use regarding the separation of two lovers--more information witheld.
Scientific name: Amyema aneityensis, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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intidin
n.
a crop, but not the first ripe
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89
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intinan
n.
a bed, a foundation, a plantation
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89
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intucjip
n.
bush land; also "inteucjip"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 89
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inyje
n.
tree to 15 m, dbh 20 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4914)
Example: Use the leaves to make compost to be placed at the bottom of the hole where taro is to be planted, cover with soil and grow the taro in that hole. Serves as a fertilizer.
Scientific name: Pittosporum campbellii, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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isji ariko
v.
to gather beans
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 90
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isjid
v.
to chip off small branches
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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lelahapol
n.
a cultivated field
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 92
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ma
adj.
ripe, as fruit; healed, as a wound; also "mah"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 92
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masoa
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herb to 1 m, fruits green (collection: Michael J. Balick #4915)
Example: This plant was said to have been brought in by the early missionaries, used to starch their clothes and grown as a crop for export to England. Used as a food crop as well, the root is mashed, dried in the sun and kept until needed. To process, put the roots in a bowl, add water and soak for 1 day and night, pour off the water and keep the starch. Prepare this food like lap-lap that is cooked on a fire in a pan.
Scientific name: Tacca leontopetaloides, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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meto
adj.
ripe; also "metto"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 93
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mure
adj.
ripe, as arrowroot; also "murre"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 93
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na elmai
n.
cloth (related to nelmai)
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 99
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namji
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tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3508)
Example: 1. The stems of this plant are sharpened and used to plant swamp taro or dry land taro. 2. Break small branch top put behind ear if you go to an unknown place and keep behind ear and sleep with it. If the place is safe you will sleep if it is not you will not sleep well – only behind ear when you sleep.
Scientific name: Phyllanthus ciccoides, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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namlau elwa
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tree to 15 m tall, dbh 40 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4859)
Example: The wood of this tree is good for carving. The fibers go in one direction so it is easier to carve, for example, to make a kava bowl. In general, this is the species used to make kava bowls. If your kava is not strong, then making it in this bowl will make it stronger. The kind of bowl made from this tree has a handle on each side of the bowl and it is held with 2 hands. The place name Anumwmamlau is named after this tree. There are said to be two types of this tree--one with all green leaves (this specimen) and one with white and green leaves. If a person is going to a Tabu place and is concerned about spirits, they should take a handful of these leaves and wash the body all over with it--take a swim (bath) with it. Then the person can go to the Tabu place without risk. There are other unspecified spiritual uses of this tree. The second part of this local name "elwa" refers to the variegation of the leaves.
Scientific name: Phyllanthus ciccoides, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nanad
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shrub to 1. 5 m, flowers white. Red clay soil (collection: Michael J. Balick #4882)
Example: Use the leaves to make compost to be placed at the bottom of the hole where taro is to be planted, cover with soil and grow the taro in that hole. Serves as a fertilizer.
Scientific name: Scaevola neoebudica, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nanad
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shrub, 1 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3553)
Example: 1. A stimulant plant. If a person is going to their garden early in the morning before the sun come up, break 2 top young leaves and chew and swallow the liquid, spitting out the fiber. This makes the person able to work harder and not feel tired while in the fields. It was noted that "a person can do the work of many people if they chew this." 2. The leaves are used for fertilizer for taro--put a bunch of leaves in a hole were taro is to be planted as a compost/antibiotic. This practice is said to kill all of the bad organisms such as bacttively impact the health of the taro plant. 3. This one collected from coastal area, ?? one collected in forest area. People take 4 leaves, chew leaves, swallow juice, gives energy to work hard the entire day. For fishing, take lots of ripe fruits and put in pocket, you will be able to catch a lot of fish. It brings good fortune when fishing. Roots – take one root, wash where a woman is giving birth to a newborn baby, give a drop of the juice from the root to clear the mucus in the throat.
Scientific name: Scaevola taccada, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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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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napuig
n.
a reed frame for supporting the tendrils of yams
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 96
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narahcai
n.
a table made of reeds, for drying arrowroot, etc.
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 96
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naravi
n.
a gathering of inmops or horse-chestnuts
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 96
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nared
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vine to 3 m, sori brown. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4930)
Example: Take a handful of the vine, twist it into rope with many stems of the vine, and use it to tie bundles of sugar cane. It can also be used to tie wild canes (Miscanthus) to the roof of the house. Take a handful of the vine, twist it into rope with many stems of the vine, and use it to tie bundles of sugar cane. It can also be used to tie wild canes (Miscanthus) to the roof of the house.
Scientific name: Lygodium reticulatum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nasau
n.
a crop; fruit which grows spontaneously
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 96
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nauhap̃
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small tree or shrub, 2 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3210)
Example: 1. Use the leaves to put in a hole where taro is being planted, as a sort of fertilizer--it rots easily and adds value to the soil. To protect a person from spirits if you are going to an unfamiliar place, take the young inflorescence and put behind your ear. This plant is a sort of "spiritual kava." 2. Flowers are put behind one ear, any side, to allow a person to pass through sacred places. For protection of the spirits especially if you are familiar with this place. On EAST SIDE, put one leaf under pillow before sleeping so that the lady spirit will not disturb the person. Only for men – spirit likes men, and wants to have sleep with them. If she gets pregnant, you must follow her to look after the kids in the spirit world so you leave this one (you die). 3. The small, straight stems of this plant are used as rafters to weave thatch. 4. Children make bows and arrows from the stems as well as spears for fishing.
Scientific name: Macropiper latifolium, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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naupiñiña
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terrestrial fern, growing in secondary forest along the river. Leaves c. 2. 25 m long. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3656)
Example: Put several leaves of this species together to wrap food, especially the fresh water eel, and to carry plants of taro, kava, holding the leaves over one’s shoulder to carry these crops.
Scientific name: Pronephrium rubrinerve, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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necsap
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shrub to 2 m, flowers white. Red clay soil (collection: Michael J. Balick #4887)
Example: The stem makes a good digging stick to plant taro. Also branches of this tree are cut to tie the canoe to the outrigger. Used for the small sticks that sit at the base of the larger sticks that hold the outrigger (see photos).
Scientific name: Halfordia kendack, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nednañlelcei
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tree, 4 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3271)
Example: Used as a leaf compost for planting taro, layered on the bottom of the hole and covering the taro as well.
Scientific name: Melicope triphylla, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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neduwudu
adj.
full of seeds, as the pawpaw apple
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98
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negaivaine
n.
a bunch of grapes; also "nigaivaine"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98
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nehgan
n.
a stock; a bunch, as of fruit; also "negan" or "nigan"
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 98
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nehtumta
n.
land newly planted with taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 99
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neijis ieg
n.
a bundle of reeds for a torch; a torch
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 99
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nesei
n.
forest
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 152
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netcetas
n.
well branched tree, 15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4084)
Example: 1. The name means "explosion". Further information about the plant withheld.
Scientific name: Alstonia vitiensis
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neyo
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grass to 70 cm tall, sterile. Cultivated at the side of a field. (collection: Michael J. Balick #4958)
Example: The leaves and stems are boiled in water to make tea. The base of the leaves (the whitish part) is used to cook foods that have a strong odor, such as goat or shark. The base is sliced and put in the soup and this helps to keep the smell of the goat or shark from infusing through the rest of the food and making it less palatable. In some areas of Aneityum, such as in cassava fields, there is a fungus that kills the crops. This species is interplanted with the crops to kill that fungus and protect the crop plants.
Scientific name: Cymbopogon citratus, Speaker: Tony Keith
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nida
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shrub to 2 m ,fruits green (collection: Michael J. Balick #4884)
Example: When the new leaves form on this plant, people say that it is time to plant taro. The wood of the larger tree is good for posts.
Scientific name: Decaspermum neoebudicum, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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niditau
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shrub to small tree, growing in clumps among rocks in open area along river. Fruits green. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4064)
Example: 1. This plant is an indication of good soil. 2. Dry wood is used as a firewood.
Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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niditau
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tree to 8 m, dbh 20 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4867)
Example: Fruits are sweet and edible when ripe. This plant is an indicator of rich soil, a good place to plant one’s garden. The leaves of this species are mixed in with other leaves for an unspecified local medicine that helps to remove spiritual sickness
Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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niditau
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tree, 3 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3507)
Example: The young leaves and fruits are edible; the fruits are eaten ripe. This species is used for firewood as well as house posts, but they don’t last as long as other types of wood so they are used in temporary structures. A sacred plant on Aneityum. Name means linkage between this world and the spirit world. Agriculture – you find this tree ?? it means that the land is fertile. Birds eat fruits; people burn the tree to release ash and fertilizer and grow their taro around it – it will give more food. Message plant – if someone puts a long brown on your door or in your garden, it means “why are you here?” Implies that you should go back to where you belong. You don’t belong in this place. For example instead of quarreling over land dispute, put the branch and it means that you should leave this place.
Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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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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niditau
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tree. Found in the village. (collection: Ashley A McGuigan #14)
Example: The young leaves and fruits are edible; the fruits are eaten ripe. This species is used for firewood as well as house posts, but they don’t last as long as other types of wood so they are used in temporary structures. A sacred plant on Aneityum. Name means linkage between this world and the spirit world. Agriculture – you find this tree growing, it means that the land is fertile. Birds eat fruits; people burn the tree to release ash and fertilizer and grow their taro around it – it will give more food. Message plant – if someone puts a long brown on your door or in your garden, it means “why are you here?” Implies that you should go back to where you belong. You don’t belong in this place. For example instead of quarreling over land dispute, put the branch and it means that you should leave this place.
Scientific name: Ficus adenosperma, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nijinga
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shrub to 2 m, flowers blue-purple. Red clay soil (collection: Michael J. Balick #4878)
Example: A stem of this shrub is sharpened and used to dig a hole for planting kava. When a person plants kava in a hole made from this stick, there is the belief that it will make kava root stems strong and large. The fruits are edible when ripe and said to be sweet.
Scientific name: Vaccinium macgillivrayi, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nijmese
n.
green foliage
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 151
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nokoro vai cai oho
n.
orchard
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 169
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nomo
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tree, 8 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3703)
Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Wina Nasauman
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nomrop̃om̃
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tree, 10-15 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3673)
Example: The wood from this species is used to make the main crossbar of a roof, and also for house posts. Considered a good firewood.
Scientific name: Weinmannia denhamii, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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nopou
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tree to 5 m, dbh 10 cm (collection: Michael J. Balick #4881)
Example: The wood of this tree is used to make house-posts, it is strong. The leaves are used as a compost for the taro patch; line the hole with the leaves of this tree, then place soil over that and plant the taro. When the fruits are ripe, local people say that the hermit crabs are "fat" and ready to collect and eat. When a person is in the forest and there is no coconut fruit fiber to start a fire with, use a dry stick, shave it and use a match to start a pile of this tinder to make a good fire. The wood is said to be "oily." This gives it a nice aroma. To perfume coconut oil, drop the dry flowers in it--use 1 handful of dried flowers added to a pot of oil boiling on the fire while making it. Strain out flowers and the oil smells good. Flowers can also be added to the oil once it is bottled to perfume it.
Scientific name: Fagraea berteroana, Speaker: Natu Kenneth
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nuka
n.
leaves for an oven
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 105
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numta
n.
shoots of taro for planting
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 105
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numu yehec
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tree, 10-12 m tall (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #4027)
Example: 1. Used to build houses. The wood of this tree is considered very hard and heavy, so it is used as posts in traditional houses.
Scientific name: Syzygium nomoa, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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numurumu
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epiphyte on Syzygium tree, growing in secondary forest along trail above river. old fruits. (collection: Gregory M. Plunkett #3660)
Example: Put several leaves of this species together to wrap food, especially the fresh water eel, and to carry plants of taro, kava, holding the leaves over one’s shoulder to carry these crops. Used as a baby’s remedy for when the baby is crying too much because the parents are having to much sex. The baby will also be slow to grow and be thin. To remedy this, must wash the baby with the following mixture: nekei atimi (bark), nohos atimi (green skin of the stem), nepnatimi ataman (part not specified). Scrap about 1 inch cubed of the nekei atimi into your hand along with 1in x 4in of the first layer of the green skin of the banana stem (nohos atimi), and the top 8 leaves from about two separate branches of the nepnatimi ataman. Bind all ingredients together and pound them and put everything in the baby’s water for bathing. Wash the baby in water made with this mixture. Do not wipe the baby dry but let it air dry. The next day when you wash the baby with soap, you must re-wash them with the mixture again. Do this for 5 days with the same water mixture. It may small bad but that is okay. Finally on day 5, take the juice from the outter layer of skin on the stem of the banana, nohos atimi, and give a full spoonful of the juice to the baby to drink. Other plants can be added to the bathing water but these are the three primary ingredients.
Scientific name: Procris pedunculata, Speaker: Titiya Lalep
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oho
v.n.
to bear fruit as a tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 105
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ohod
n.
bundle of leaves, as of nasiaij
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 105
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pakauoc
adj.
unripe
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 106
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reseiheto
n.
a second growth, as grass that springs up after being burned
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 107
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tite
adj.
ripe early in the season
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 109
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ucsiligei
v.a.
to pare off rind
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 110
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ugnis
v.a.
to take off sprouts of taro
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 110
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uman
n.
garden
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 153
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upuhasin
n.
sprouts
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 188
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upumure
v.n.
to fall, as unripe fruit
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 111
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wud yi encreucaig
v.a.
beat so as to shake a tree
Speaker: Inglis 1882, p. 127
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