tabuana kind of sugarcane

• • kind of sugarcane
  • • plants

  Scientific Name

  saccharum species

  • • Example 2212:
      

      O tabuana na honovo nana, are paa ani o paapao nae.

      When the tabuana bears fruit, we eat it as a vegetable.

      Source:

      Sii 41W 029

    • Example 6844:
      

      A tabuana na potee nana bono tovu. A paka nae bara to vanavanava vo nae na paku vonaen teo tovu.

      The tabuana is like the sugar cane. Its leaves and the way it grows bars make it (the sugar cane called tabuana) similar to the (sugar cane called) tovu.

      Source:

      Sii 41W 027-028

    • Example 6845:
      

      Tabuana a taba'an a mataa.

      Tabuana sugarcane is good food.

      Source:

      VaaSen 01W 818

Related entries

• See also:
  • honovo (of banana plants and a sugarcane species) bear fruit
  • vanavanava (of sugar cane) grow many bars
  • navanava bars