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noun kind of plant, found in nursery
Scientific name: Sphagneticola trilobata
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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.)
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noun kind of plant, found on S. Pentacost
Scientific name: Sphaerostephanos
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noun kind of plant (long), stiff shoestring fern
Scientific name: Vittaria elongata
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noun Indian coral tree, kind of tree; also serves to mark August and September in the ecological calendar
Scientific name: Erythrina variegata
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noun kind of plant
Scientific name: Sesuvium portulacstrum
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noun Fijian arrowroot, kind of herb
Scientific name: Tacca leontopetaloides
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Talking Dictionary produced by Presley Dovo, James Ure, Gregory Plunkett, K. David Harrison, and Jeremy Fahringer, with Calvin Heiman and Neal Kelso (2020)
Raga botanical names collected by Philemon Ala, Raga language contributors are credited within the dictionary entries.
The Raga-English Talking Dictionary was made possible by award no. 1555675 from National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Plant, Fungal and Linguistic Diversity of Tafea Province, Vanuatu.” This support is gratefully acknowledged.
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