bookua dolphinfish

Part of Speech n2
    • dolphinfish
      • animals, fishes
    • Scientific Name Coryphaenidae
      • Example 1074:
        A bookua a iana a beera a bebeahu vasiihum bara a tatabonata. A iana vai na teitei koana namana. A tabaan teve o vahara iana vaarii to teitei batari namana bara na ani batana bono iana vaarii to dao ri raara bono pohamana. Tea meha maa vuri na vaavihi peepeha batana, meha maa vuri na nao vaagum rori.
        The dolphinfish is a big fish, it is quite long and broad. This fish only lives in the ocean. Its food are little fish that also stay in the ocean, and it also eats those fish that we call pohamana. Sometimes it travels by itself, at other times it goes in a group with others. (lit. they go in a group).
        Source: Vaa 09W 073-077

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