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TABLE OF VERNACULAR NAMES ON PINGELAP AND ADJACENT ISLANDS ( Continued) 
PLANT SPECIES 
ISLANDS AND LIST OF VERNACULAR PLANT NAMES 
Pingelap 
Ponape 
Truk 
Kusaie 
Marshall Is. 
Fimbristylis 
cymosa 
*rosakai 
fedil, puker 
*berelitchman, 
*pererlitchman, 
perelejman, 
peri j man, 
berej isman, 
*dilitchman, 
*drelisman, 
*drelitchman, 
*merelijiman, 
*malelitchmar, 
*uioet 
Cocos nucifera 
*ni 
ni 
nu 
*nu (drinking 
nut), non, 
kwanu, 
*kaenu 
*ni 
Colocasia 
esculenta 
var. antiquorum 
*sawa 
sawa, tsaua 
sawa, sarawai, 
onni 
*katak, taka 
*katak 
Cyrtosperma 
Chamissonis 
*maiang 
mwong 
pashon, fanan, 
pula 
*pashok 
*iaratz, *iaratch, 
iaraj 
C. Chamissonis 
var. 
*muiang an 
Ngatik 
mwang en Natik 
C. Chamissonis 
var. 
*stmidm 
simiten 
*simenton 
Crinum 
asiaticum 
*kiep 
kiop, kiaup, kip, 
sip 
*kiep, *guiep, 
gib 
Zephyranthes 
rosea 
*kiep 
Tacca Leontopet- 
aloides 
*mugamuk 
mokomok, 
mokamok, 
mokintok 
mokomok, 
mokumok, 
makmok, 
mokemok 
*mokmok 
*magamuk, 
* mag amok, 
*makamuk, 
makmok, 
makmok, 
mokemok, 
mokamok 
Dioscorea sp. 
*kep 
kep, kaapwalap 
ep, ampul 
*ohkani 
*mata 
Musa paradisiaca 
*wis (on 
Woleai I. 
called: wiss) 
oio, ut 
uch, udj 
*ousch, eusr, 
oune 
*kebrang, 
kebreng, 
kabrang, 
kabiran, 
*binana 
(—banana) 
M. paradisiaca 
var. 
*Taiwan 
taiwang 
* Taiwan banana 
M. paradisiaca 
var. 
*Amerika 
Amerika 
M. paradisiaca 
var. 
Hakatan 
nakatan 
*lakatan 
