A multifunctional Teop-English dictionary: Example 4271

Word senses:

Mataberam. A iana vai na dao raara bona haopi. O iana bona na kasi bata raara teo kasuana. Beara vakihi kie bona tahii, ore paa vasivuhu teo kasuana. Bero amaa kaku haopi. O haopi vai he to dao raara bono mataberam, eve a beera rio haopi. O vihi teve na vaarihi ni nana bene ta kakaavoo.
Rockmover Wrasse. This fish is also called haopi. We dig this fish out of the sand. When we push a stick into the water for it, it buries itself in the sand. There are many kinds of haopi. But the haopi that we call mataberam is the biggest of the haopi. Its tail has a white stripe.
Source: Sii 46W 083-091