Plants (Tok Pisin) Archives - Tok Pisin English Dictionary

aiai

1. the Malay apple fruit and tree (Yambosa malaccensis)

2. a kind of hardwood (Eugenia malaccensis)

apple.

a decorative palm of the Cycas family

a timber tree with edible fruits, Burckella obovata, found in Milne Bay Province and the Gazelle Peninsula.

Derived from Gazelle Peninsula

1. a tall type of ginger, whose roots are used in sorcery

2. traditional ‘no trespassing’ sign made of wild ginger

Derived from New Hannover

sweet potato

Katim sampela rop bilong kaukau, orait, bai mi ken planim ol.
Cut some sweet potato vine cuttings and then later I can plant them.

Derived from New Ireland

the Malay apple tree and fruit

Derived from Gazelle Peninsula

the rain tree, any of the Jacaranda type of tree

Derived from Gazelle Peninsula

coral tree (also balbal)

Ol Tolai i save yusim palpal long makim matmat na gaden bilong ol.
The Tolai use coral trees to mark their burial grounds and gardens.

Derived from Gazelle Peninsula

a type of wild sugar cane with edible fruit, cane grass, small bamboo (that you can eat)

Ol manmeri long Fiji i laikim moa long kaikaim pitpit.
Fijians love to eat pitpit.