honovo (of banana plants and a sugarcane species) bear fruit

Part of Speech vi
    • (of banana plants and a sugarcane species) bear fruit
      • plants
      • growth
      • Example 800:
        Beara neba nio pauna ore paa pura ore beera. be beera antee o sunaha ore paa tavus maa teo pusu no pauna, ei beo pauna mei nana tea honovo.
        When we plant the banana plant, it grows and becomes bigger until the shoot appears at the base of the banana, before the banana bears fruit.
        Source: Sii 17W 288-289
      • Example 2209:
        O pauna tenam na honovo.
        Our banana plant bore fruit.
        Source: Ond 01W 034
      • Example 2210:
        Honovo vai o pauna, a pusu no pauna ore paa hapus mana tea sunaha.
        When the banana bears fruit, the base of the banana becomes full of suckers.
        Source: Sii 17W 290
      • Example 2211:
        Be pura hiava, eove repaa honovo.
        When it grows up, it bears fruit. (i.e. the plantains)
        Source: Joy 12W 036
      • Example 2212:
        O tabuana na honovo nana, are paa ani o paapao nae.
        When the tabuana bears fruit, we eat it as a vegetable.
        Source: Sii 41W 029

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