kiriwaka

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.

Bingham

kiriwáka

a. very fibrous or stringy as undesirous pandanus fruit.

n. fibrousness, stringiness.

kiriwaka

a. stringy, fibrous, etc.

vt. kiriwaka (kaea), kiriwakaia: to pull the roots off, to separate fibre from pulp, to slice off end of pandanus fruit.

syn. bwerewa (N.).