tako² Alexandrian laurel nut

Part of Speech

n2

• • Alexandrian laurel nut
  • • plants

  • • Example 6999:
      

      Beam vatatako mee eam repaa vagegesu nia maa tako team.

      Also, when you play the tako nut game, then you make the clapping sound with your tako nuts.

      Source: SiiSen 03W 022

Related entries

• See also:
  • tako¹ Alexandrian laurel; beauty-leaf, a tree which grows along the coast and bears nuts
  • vatatako play a game with tako nuts (nuts of the Alexandrian laurel tree), in which you jiggle two tako nuts, making a clapping sound by hitting them in your hands against a bokii shell that you hold in one hand
  • vua tako Alexandrian laurel nut