udo we tadoe¹ a kind of croton

Part of Speech

noun

• • a kind of croton

  Literally	bananas for the spirits
  Scientific Name	Codiaeum inophyllum

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• Contains:
  • tadoe¹ ancestral spirit, representing the soul of an ancestor. These anonymous, invisible spirits haunt the island and live around humans / used metonymically for the bush, the wild, e.g. for certain plant names when they are not fit for human consumption and belong to the forest / representation of spirits through sculptures or headdresses / deity, ancestral god worshipped in ancient times / the Christian God