rasuu jungle; bush; forest

Part of Speech n2
    • jungle; bush; forest
      • environment
      • Example 340:
        Eara pasi nao rara rasuu, are paa mosi maa ta maa raviana ge ta maa ariono.
        We will go into the bush to cut some raviana vines or some ariono vines.
        Source: Sii 06RG 020-023
      • Example 3181:
        Ean kahi tagihu nom rasuu tea kurusu kave.
        You go into the bush to cut kave-vines.
        Source: Naph 03W 037
      • Example 3922:
        Meori paa nao rasuu, meori paa kurukurusu maa bona kara kave.
        And they went into the bush, and they cut kave vines.
        Source: Sii 06E(Joy) 045-046
      • Example 4860:
        Eara na hopo rara rasuu to tei nana o naono. Eara repaa sisira o naono havee toro busu voe beara tagava e.
        (The method of making an indigenous canoe goes like this.) We go into the jungle where the tree is. Then we examine where the tree must fall down when we fell it.
        Source: Tah 02E(Eno) 003-004
      • Example 6085:
        A rasuu o hum vai to saka tii haana ta mohina ge ta meha taba to taneba nana teebona.
        The jungle is a place where there isn't any garden or any other thing that is planted.
        Source: VaaSen 01W 607

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  • See also:
    • ariono2 vine species used for making strings
    • hopo1 go into a narrow space or dense area (a cave, rock shelter, hole, hollow tree, the jungle); slip into a hole
    • kara kave vine used for making fishing nets
    • mohina garden
    • raviana vine species used for making strings
    • tagihu go into the jungle; go into the bush