sinivi2 Blackboard Tree, a hard wood tree used for making canoes

Part of Speech n3
Variant Form(s) naosinivi
    • Blackboard Tree, a hard wood tree used for making canoes
      • plants
      • Scientific Name alstonia scholaris
      • Example 6436:
        O naono vai o sinivi na taba beera kurusu kiri nana bona tavaan to popo rori teo toro mohina.
        This tree, the Blackboard Tree, is a very important thing for the people who live on an island.
        Source: Joy 24W 004
      • Example 6437:
        O naono sinivi o nebaneba. Beve beera a abana repaa mosi bari mene paku sinivi mene haehae vo tahii.
        The blackboard tree is a planted tree. When it is big, the people cut it for making canoes for transport on the sea.
        Source: Jan 02W 008
      • Example 6438:
        Tagava bono naono sinivi komana, meori paa taneo tea kepo bari.
        They felled a sinivi tree, and they started to carve it.
        Source: San 02E(Eno) 018

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  • See also:
    • hiiruu sinivi blossom of the blackbord tree
    • naosinivi Blackboard Tree; Indian Devil Tree
    • konoa a wild pit-pit grass often found growing in clumps along river banks
    • nao sinivi wooden body of a canoe with an outrigger