devele k.o. wooden knife traditionally used in cooking / Pen shell / [...]

Part of Speech	noun
Phonetic Form	ⁿdevele
Tanema Equivalent	davala
Lovono Equivalent	devele

1. • k.o. wooden knife traditionally used in cooking
   • • Techn
2. • Pen shell
   • • Sea

   Literally	knife
   Scientific Name	Pinna bicolor
   Syntactic Restriction	analogy of shape
   Encyclopedic Info	The shape of this shell is vaguely reminiscent of a knife blade.

3. • pearl oyster
   • • Sea

   Scientific Name	Pinctada margaritifera
   Sense Comment	hence

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• See also:
  • okoro bamboo / name of certain artefacts made of bamboo / a heavy bamboo, used as a stamping tube. Singers of buro bula okoro ‘bamboo songs’ stamp (~woi) the bamboo on the ground, thereby producing a deep sound as they sing along / a traditional knife made of bamboo; hence (modern) knife; bushknife, machete