nuonuo

Bingham

núonuo

n. the fish.

sn. gen. Canthidermis (rc).

Sabatier

nuonuo

n. a fish with poisonous darts on tail (Canthidermis, file fish, trigger fish).

sn. Balistrapus sp.

fig. kun n nuonuo, ae aki muti: one who doesn't care, hard hearted.

Goo & Banner

núonuo

sn. Balistapus sp. (ll).

n. triggerfish (sm).

Luomala

nuonuo

sn. Balistoides viridescens (balistidae).

n. triggerfish.

Topics: Fish, 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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