waro

Bingham

wáro

n. a species of crab, the.

n. a jack-knife.

Sabatier

waro

n. Te Waro: constellation of small stars near Canopus.

waro¹

n. (1) sea mantis.

sn. Stomapoda.

n. (2) pocket knife which closes like claws of...

nv. kawaro: to fish for...

waro²

n. knot form, without loops.

Goo & Banner

wáro

sn. Lysiosquilla maculata (i).

wáro

sn. Pseudosquilla ciliata (i).

Luomala

waro

and varo.

sn. Stomatopod.

n. crustacean.

Topics: Shells and sea creatures, Weather and sky, 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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