tarai kind of clam

• • kind of clam
  • • animals, shellfish

  • • Example 7276:
      

      O tarai vai na dao raara bono tarai suuna. Na hio koana irihi bara tea ahono. Saka topo vakikis haana teo vasu. Bean rake ta ani tarai, ean paa nao tea ahono tea vahi tarai.

      This clamshell is called real clamshell. It is only sitting at the edge of the reef and in the green seaweed. It does not firmly stick on the stones. When you want to eat clamshells, you go to the green seaweed to flesh out clamshells.

      Source: Sii 45W(Joy) 260-264

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• See also:
  • kiitau³ kind of clams found in deep waters
  • vahivahi collect and flesh out shellfish
  • butebutee kind of clamshell found in reef areas
  • hovuhovu iobo dig out many sea-sausages
  • kapu kind of large clam; Giant Clam
  • vahi pick out something; pick the shellfish out of its shell