karunata Bluestripe Snapper

Part of Speech n2
    • Bluestripe Snapper
      • animals, fishes
      • Scientific Name Lutjanus kasmira
      • Example 3098:
        A iana vai o karunata saka bebeera vira haana. O iana bari na hiohio vaagum batari tea maa naena vai to tei rio vasu vai to dao raara bono bano. Tea maa tauravi a ta Teapu repaa hua pahana maa tea vagarara en teo naena.
        This fish, the Bluestripe Snapper, does not get very big. These fish sit in a crowd at the points of land where there are the stones called bano. In the afternoons the Teop people come paddlling across (the bay) to do the vagarara fishing here at the point (of Hiovabon).
        Source: Sii 11W 064-066
      • Example 3099:
        Teebona to bero rio iana vai o karunata.
        There these Bluestripe Snapper fish are plenty.
        Source: Sii 11W 067
      • Example 3100:
        O monaa tea iana vai o karunata o kasikasiree.
        The fat of this fish, the Bluestripe Snapper, is yellow.
        Source: Sii 11W 068
      • Example 3101:
        O karunata o peho sii kaku iana to teitei batari tea maa hum evaeva, eori he na hiohio vaagum batari. Na gonogono kaakoo miri raara teo kaku vagana to dao raara bono vagarara ge tea ruuvu.
        The Bluestripe Snapper are a kind of fish that stay in the places with corals, sitting together in a group. We catch them by a fishing method that we call vagarara or by diving.
        Source: Eno 11W 092-096

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