iobo sea-sausage

Part of Speech n3
    • sea-sausage
      • animals, unclassified
      • Scientific Name Holothuriidae
      • Example 2495:
        O iobo a peha taba vaa tahii to anan raara a ta Teapu.
        The sea-sausage is an animal of the sea that we Teop people eat.
        Source:
        Hel 07E(Sha) 002
      • Example 2496:
        Beara tau nao tea vagana iobo, eara toro dee o pusu hiovu, a sinaka ae a bonaa, eara re nao tea masi.
        When we are about to go fishing for sea-sausages, we must take a catching stick, a peg and a fishing basket, then we go to the reef.
        Source:
        Hel 07E(Sha) 004
      • Example 2497:
        Beara tara a sii puhuku kakaamuru, eara repaa kona voen o iobo na tei nana.
        When we see a little heap of white sand, we know that there is a sea-sausage.
        Source:
        Hel 07E(Sha) 007
      • Example 2498:
        O iobo: Iobo suuna, iobo mahaa, iobo gaugau, iobo karirava.
        There are different kinds of sea-sausage: Iobo suuna, sea-sausage mahaa, sea-sausage gaugau, and sea-sausage karirava.
        Source:
        Sii 51W 013

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  • See also:
    • bonaa iobo basket used for sea-sausages
    • hovu1 dig out sea-sausages; dig into the sand with a stick
    • pusu hiovu1 stick for catching sea-sausages
    • sinaka a peg which is sharpened at one end and inserted into the float of the outrigger and tied onto the platform attached to the canoe / stick used to get the sea-sausage sea-sausage out of the shell
    • taba2 creature; animal
    • ahuhu squeeze out the water (of a sea-sausage)
    • ato1 touch something or somebody; hold or get hold of something or somebody; grab something or somebody
    • bonaa hoohoo trapping basket; a fishing basket woven from coconut midribs and used for catching tiny fish in rocks in the reefy areas; the "bonaa hoohoo" is carried on the right side on a belt.
    • geregerete tear off the upper part of a sea-sausage
    • hovuhovu iobo dig out many sea-sausages
    • hum hovohovo iobo place where sea-sausages move underground
    • korivahi Thorny Oyster
    • pipihoi kind of sea-sausage
    • tara rakerake search for something
    • tatavorii Venus Clam
    • tootosi kind of seafood
    • vaobete hopo lay or put something into something else
    • vihii (of pain) sting