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buro

Bingham

búro

n. the heart.

búro

vi. to boil.

Sabatier

buro

n. heart.

buro1

n. buroburo. ebullition, bubbling up, frothing, shooting up, leavening, swelling up, sap oozing, fermentation.
ex. buron te kai: sap escaping from tree.
v. buro, buroburo, burorake: to boil, to bubble, to swell, to ferment.
vc. kaburoa: to boil.
n. te kaburoburo.

buro2

v. to weigh anchor.
syn. tae-ro.

buro3

n. a species of small shell, shiny and white and sometimes a gold ring on top.
sn. Monetaria annulus.

Luomala

buro

sn. Cypraea (gastropod).
n. snail.

Topics: Shells and sea creatures, Sea, canoes and navigation, The body, Ethnobotany (Luomala)