amisina big black ant which has a stinging bite

Part of Speech n2
    • big black ant which has a stinging bite
      • animals, insects
      • Example 158:
        O amisina o paru. O amisina na tei rori rasuu, eori mee na hiri rori tea subui vaa komana overe.
        The amisina ants are black. The ants stay in the jungle, they also crawl in the weeds inside the coconut plantation.
        Source: Sii 33W 001-003
      • Example 159:
        Na popo rori tea maa pesupaava vai to hovu kahi roho ori tea kavuraa bara tea maa nou to unuunu riori, ore paa popo teebona.
        They (the black ants) live in the fibrous coconut husk that had fallen off when the coconuts were husked for copra, and (they live) in the rubbish that they collect in order to live there.
        Source: Sii 33W 004-007
      • Example 160:
        O amisina o kotokoto vakamis, na mataa koana, beara vahae nio buut, are paa kiu teo hum vai to tei nana o amisina.
        The black ants are painful biters, it is good, when we put on boots when we work where amisina ants stay.
        Source: Sii 33W 008-010
      • Example 161:
        A amisina a kotokoto vakamisi.
        The black ant is a painful biter.
        Source: Sir 01W 005
      • Example 162:
        Eara saka antee haara tea kiu teo hum to tei rio amisina.
        We cannot do any work in a place where black ants are.
        Source: Sir 01W 006

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