vaausu kind of grasshopper

Part of Speech n2
    • kind of grasshopper
      • animals, insects
      • Example 8268:
        A vaausu a kookaa vai a beera, a uruurunata. Na teitei batana tea maa vuu veresun bara tea maa vuu raono.
        The vaausu is a big grasshopper, it is brown. It stays in groups of wild bananas and raon plant.
        Source: Ond 03W 004-005
      • Example 8269:
        A vaausu a meha sii kookaa. Na beera oha nana bona kookaa vai to dao riori bona vaasiririi. O giroas tea vaausu o uruurunata. A vaausu na teitei nana teo paka osiko bara teo supi hiraata. Na tei me nana bono pehatotoka o moona. Na vakotokoto nana, evehee saka kamisi haana.
        The vaausu is a grasshopper. It is bigger than the grasshopper that is called vaasiririi. The colour of the vaausu is brown. The vaausu lives in the leaves of the osiko ginger plant and in the shoots of the hiraata plant. It has six legs. It bites, but it does not hurt.
        Source: Sir 01W 221-224

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  • See also:
    • kookaa grasshopper (generic term)
    • hiraata plant with long leaves like the banana plant and the heliconia indica