miimiana a small palm

Part of Speech n3
    • a small palm
      • plants
      • Scientific Name ptychosperma species
      • Example 295:
        O miimiana amaa taba amaa bero kurusu to haihai araarae.
        The miimiana palm helps us with many things. (lit. The miimiana palm, (there are) very many things with which it helps us.)
        Source: Sii 39W 040
      • Example 322:
        A varuvaru na inu vai a mimiana ge a are.
        The rafters of this house are (made of) mimiana or betelnut palms. (i.e. the house called tobara)
        Source: Eno 06W 025
      • Example 3352:
        Eara na nuke maara a paka miimiana, eara repaa mono ee bona kiikiono.
        We pick the leaves of the miimiana palm and then wrap the kiikiono (a dish made of mashed galip nuts and manioc) in them.
        Source: Sii 39W 041
      • Example 4510:
        O naono to dao raara bono miimiana na purapura nana tea maa rasuu teara.
        The tree that we call miimiana grows in our forests.
        Source: Sii 39W 039
      • Example 4511:
        Eara na rom rara o miimiana, eara repaa kopakopaa eve. Murinae eara repaa kahu e bona maa hum hiovu mene hovu iobo ge hovu overe. Amaa sinaka mee mene pisin iobo ae mene amaa sinaka no sinivi.
        We fell the miimiana palm and cut it open. Then we carve the sticks for catching sea-sausages or husking coconuts. Also sticks for turning the sea-sausage inside out and for the pegs of the outrigger canoe.
        Source: Sii 39W 042-44
      • Example 4512:
        ... ean paa gono a paka miimiana tean, ean paa uhu ee bona ohita.
        ... you get your miimiana leaves, then you smear the (mashed) galip nuts on them.
        Source: Hel 02R 041-042

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  • See also:
    • kiikiono dish made of mashed galip nuts and manioc, which is wrapped in miimiana-leaves and cooked
    • 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
    • tobara2 boys' house
    • mono kiikiono parcel of kiikiono, a dish made of mashed galip nuts and manioc
    • nuke (of leaves) snap off something, pick something
    • uhu3 rub grease or oil on something; smear grease or oil on something (with something9