kabinea

Bingham

kábinea

n. a shell-fish, the.

Sabatier

kabinea

n. a pointed shell.

sn. Mitra pontificalis.

Goo & Banner

kábinea

sn. Mitra spp. (i).

n. mitre shell (ja).

kabinea¹

sn. Terebra spp. (i).

n. auger shell (ja).

Luomala

kabinea

sn. Mitra (Gastropod).
Terebra.

n. snail.

Topics: Shells and sea creatures, Animal and plant names (Goo & Banner), Ethnobotany (Luomala)

Sources

Bingham: Hiram Bingham, A Gilbertese-English Dictionary (1908, 1953). American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Sabatier: Ernest Sabatier, M.S.C., Dictionnaire Gilbertin-Français (1954), translated by Sr. M. Oliva as Gilbertese-English Dictionary (1971). South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau.
Goo & Banner: Fannie C. C. Goo & Albert H. Banner, A Preliminary Compilation of Gilbertese Animal and Plant Names (1963).
Luomala: Katharine Luomala, Ethnobotany of the Gilbert Islands (1953). Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 213.

From A Combined Kiribati-English Dictionary, compiled by Stephen Trussel and Gordon W. Groves (University of Hawaiʻi, 1978), revised and edited by Stephen Trussel (2003), as published on trussel.com. Original page (archived).

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