sunaha banana sucker

• • banana sucker
  • • plants
    • agriculture

  Scientific Name

  musa sp.

  • • Example 800:
      

      Beara neba nio pauna ore paa pura ore beera. be beera antee o sunaha ore paa tavus maa teo pusu no pauna, ei beo pauna mei nana tea honovo.

      When we plant the banana plant, it grows and becomes bigger until the shoot appears at the base of the banana, before the banana bears fruit.

      Source: Sii 17W 288-289

    • Example 5470:
      

      Goe tea kasi sunaha beo pauna o kobus.

      Do not dig out the suckers as long as the banana is still young.

      Source: Sii 17W 291

    • Example 6657:
      

      O sunaha pauna, sunaha veresun, sunaha raon.

      Banana sucker, sucker of the wild banana, sucker of the raon (another musa species).

      Source: Sii 17W 351

    • Example 6658:
      

      tea kasi sunaha

      to dig out banana suckers,

      Source: Eno 01R 049

    • Example 6659:
      

      Kurus o pauna, ean repaa kasi mana o sunaha teve.

      Cut off the bananas, then you eventually dig out its suckers.

      Source: Sii 17W 292

    • Example 6660:
      

      O sunaha tamuraa vai o vavaakirii na neba ni mae Tenai nanava.

      The striped tamuraa banana shoot was planted by Tenai yesterday.

      Source: Sii 47W 105

Related entries

• See also:
  • vaasunaha wait for the suckers to grow; let the suckers grow
  • vasunasunaha grow many suckers/shoots all over the place
  • pauna² banana (fruit)
  • tamuraa¹ kind of plantain; kind of cooking banana