marai pepper plant chewed with betel nut. It is dipped into the lime [...]

Part of Speech n3
    • pepper plant chewed with betel nut. It is dipped into the lime and chewed
      • plants
      • Scientific Name piper betel
      • Example 4177:
        Eara na tei me rara o kukan o kaku marai: marai suuna, sanlong, bara o marai to dao raara bono popogoro.
        We have three kinds of pepper: indigenous pepper, sanlong and the pepper that is called popogoro.
        Source: Sii 40W 059
      • Example 4178:
        O marai vai o popogoro na purapura pinopino batana tea overe bara tea maa kakukaku naono, o marai bona o puara, evehee eara na naanaha rae.
        The popogoro pepper grows everywhere without care with the coconut palms and other kinds of trees. This pepper is wild, but we use it for chewing betelnuts.
        Source: Sii 40W 060-061
      • Example 4179:
        O meho marai, a hena nae o sanlon, o marai bona o bebeahu, amaa meha na bebeahu vaantee batana bona 12 centimetre, amaa meha he amaa 10 centimetre, evehee o pogara mee.
        The other pepper whose name is sanlong, this pepper is long, some reach the length of 12 centimetres, while others are 10 centimetres long, but they are also thick.
        Source: Sii 40W 062-063
      • Example 4180:
        O marai suuna o marai teara komana. Sa bebeera haana, na beera vaantee koana.
        The indigenous pepper is our own pepper. It is not very big, but just big enough.
        Source: Sii 40W 064-065
      • Example 4181:
        Bea aba naanaha bono marai suuna, a meha aba na antee nana tea avuhu inana bona, paku vo nae mee teo sanlong bara teo popogoro.
        When someone chews betelnuts with the indigenous pepper, somebody else can recognise it by the smell, the same also holds true for the sanlong and the popogoro.
        Source: Sii 40W 066-067

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  • See also:
    • bebeahu vaantee reach the length of something; be as long as something else
    • kukunata plant with leaves that are chewed with betel nuts; similar to the mustard seed leaf
    • popogoro kind of pepper plant chewed with betelnuts
    • sanlong kind of pepper plant the leaves of which are used for betelnut chewing
    • taba naanaha things one chews betelnuts with
    • vuuvuu dip something into something