kuau

Bingham

kuáu

n. a fish, the.

vi. to fish for the kuau.

Sabatier

kuau

n. a fish.

sn. Epenephelus corallicota species.

ex. kuaumananinga, kuau maraiti, kuau n Tarawa, kuau banni, kuaubwi, kuau rang.

Goo & Banner

kuáu

sn. Epinephelus hexagonatus (ll).

n. rock codd (sm).

kuau¹

sn. Epinephelus melanostigma (ll).

n. rock codd (sm).

kuau²

sn. Epinephelus merra.

n. rock codd (A small, cream colored rock cod with brown hexagonal shaped markings; There are a number of similar species which all have some form of brown hexagonal markings and are also known as kuau.).

kuau³

sn. Scorpaenodes kelloggi (y).

n. scorpionfish (sm).

kuau⁴

sn. Scorpaenodes sp. (ll).

n. rock cod;; grey color; poisonous (cc).

kuau⁵

sn. family Serranidae.

n. rock codd (carnivorous with heavy bodies; large mouths; small scales and round fins) (hh).

Luomala

kuau

sn. Epinephalus hexagonatus (serrinidae).

n. grouper, seabass.

sn. E. merra.
E. tauvina.

Topics: Fish, Family and people, Colours, 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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