ogana soft inside of a tree, sugar cane or a piece of wood

Part of Speech n3
    • soft inside of a tree, sugar cane or a piece of wood
      • plants
      • Example 5081:
        O tovu vai o viinagana o ogana teve o beera.
        The viinagana sugar cane has a big soft inside.
        Source: Sii 48W 042
      • Example 5082:
        o ogana tovu to vaakikis nana bona paa kavarau, paa kavara kahi vue a huun mee
        because the inside of the sugar cane that makes it strong was finished, the juice was finished, too.
        Source: Val 01R 056
      • Example 5083:
        ... ore tara potee vareko bona ta ikosi, beori tahi tavusu batari bona ogana nae
        so that they look like pieces of burnt sticks when they push out their inside (i.e. pieces of breadfruit tree wood that are made into floats for the turtle net)
        Source: Eno 08W 036
      • Example 5084:
        Be kavara a kiu bona, eara repaa tarataraha kahie bono ogana nae.
        When this work is finished, we carve its soft inside out (lit. we carve from it its inside)
        Source: Eno 04W 027

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