kavakava plantain; cooking banana

• • plantain; cooking banana
  • • plants
    • food & drink

  • • Example 2008:
      

      O kavakava a hena no pauna vai to nahu raara ge kovata raara. O sunaha nae to neba ni raara. Be pura hiava, eove repaa honovo. Amaa hian repaa tavusu. Be manoto, ean repaa kurusu e.

      Kavakava is the name of bananas that we cook or roast. We plant its suckers. When it grows up, it bears fruit. The bunches of bananas come out. When they are ripe, you cut them off.

      Source: Joy 12W 034-038

    • Example 3153:
      

      Tamuraa. O peho kaku pauna kavakava tea maa kavakava anan tea ta Teapu. Saka pauna vurivuri haana, toro nahu ge kovata koa.

      Plantain species. A kind of plantain belonging to the edible plantains of the Teop people. It is not a ripe banana, it must be cooked or roasted over the fire.

      Source: Ond 01W 104-106

    • Example 3154:
      

      Evehee toro vaorete bata mi raara bona kaukau, muu, kavakava gea tapeako.

      But we must eat it (sea-sausage) together with sweet potatoes, taro, bananas or manioc.

      Source: Hel 07E(Sha) 023

    • Example 3155:
      

      Pauna vaa teo suraa: tamuraa, paataono, seseve, karapua, vatonono, kooruoo.

      The cooking bananas are: ..., (lit. bananas of the fire)

      Source: Sii 17W 294

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• See also:
  • tamuraa² fruit of the cooking banana called tamuraa
  • honovo (of banana plants and a sugarcane species) bear fruit
  • pauna¹ banana plant
  • pauna vaa teo suraa cooking banana (lit. banana of the fire)