hooto mature; ripe; ready to be harvested (only of sweet potatoes, [...]

• • mature; ripe; ready to be harvested (only of sweet potatoes, manioc, taro and yams)
  • • agriculture
    • plants

  • • Example 815:
      

      Bea beiko beera vaantee bara bea mohina hooto, eori repaa pokaa bono bon vahio kasuana.

      When the child is big enough and when the garden is ready to be harvested, they announce the day of the "letting-sit-on-the-ground" ceremony.

      Source:

      Kor 01E(Eno) 019-020

    • Example 2215:
      

      Beve hooto, ean paa kara o matana.

      When it is ripe, you pull out the top. (i.e. of the ganogano)

      Source:

      Joy 19W 020

    • Example 2216:
      

      Beve hooto, eove repaa vapepeana maa komano kasuana potee cbona kobisi na aba.

      When it is mature, it grows tubers inside the ground that look like a person's finger. (i.e. the yam called viipana)

      Source:

      Joy 19W 171

    • Example 2217:
      

      A mohina teve mee pasi hooto vamataa tamuana bata nom,

      Her garden will also always produce good harvests (lit. will always well ripen).

      Source:

      Sii 39W 064

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• See also:
  • ganogano Arrow Leaf Elephant Ear, a domesticated taro, tubers from the comb are eaten, root crop similar to taro that produces several long, oval tubers
  • vahio kasuana the custom of setting a chiefly child for the first time on the ground
  • viipana wild edible yam