katura

Bingham

katuúraa

vt. to slide along.

kátura

n. a very small bivalvular shell-fish bait for the ninimai.

Sabatier

katura

n. a small edible shell fish.

katura¹

or. katuri or katuru:

n. an edible plant of Phoenix Islands.

katura²

from. tura.

vt. to drive, to drag, to slide over.

Goo & Banner

katura

sn. Mesodesma striata (i).

katura¹

sn. Pitar japonica (i).

Luomala

katura

sn. Pitar japonica (bivalve).
Mesodesma striata (bivalve).

n. bivalve.

Topics: Fish, Shells and sea creatures, Plants and trees, Fishing, 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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