boon¹ mangrove tree

• • mangrove tree
  • • plants

  Scientific Name

  bruguiera species

  • • Example 1075:
      

      O boon o naono vaa tahii.

      The mangrove is a tree of the sea.

      Source: Sii 22W 016

    • Example 1076:
      

      Bea aba tau vigu bona inu teve, ore paa nao tea mosi bona boon mena paos, varuvaru ae suusun.

      When someone wants to build a house, he goes to cut a mangrove tree for the posts, the rafters and the king posts.

      Source: Sii 22W 017

    • Example 1077:
      

      Eam pasi naou tea mosi ta maa boon mene tokono teara.

      You must go and cut some mangove trees for our punting (the canoes).

      Source: Sii 22W 020

    • Example 1078:
      

      E Piita paa mosi vuru maa bona tapara boon mene tapara bono sinivi.

      Peter has cut mangrove poles for using them as middle poles in the canoe.

      Source: Sii 22W 021

Related entries

• See also:
  • tapara² fix the poles inside the canoe
  • tokono punt (a canoe)
  • vua boon nut of the mangrove tree