Vavae
(Kuo leʻei mei Ceiba pentandra)
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| Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. Hingoa lea fakapilitānia: Kapok | ||||||||||||||||
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Ko e vavae ko e fuʻu ʻakau lahi ia. He onoʻaho naʻe kau ki he BOMBACACEAE. ʻOsi ʻomi ʻe he kau papālangi ʻo e vavae lelei ange ['cotton'] ʻoku ngāueʻaki maʻa ia foki.
Ngaahi faʻahinga kehekehe
[fatuʻi vahe | edit source]- vavae tonga, ['kapok']; koʻeni
- vavae, Gossypium hirsutum (MALVACEAE), ['Polynesian cotton']
- vavae pālangi, Gossypium barbadense, ['Egyptian cotton']
- vavaekona
Hingoa ʻi he ngaahi lea kehe
[fatuʻi vahe | edit source](kapau ʻoku ʻoatu ʻa e hingoa ʻe taha pē, ko e vavai tonga mo e vavae pālangi ia.
- vavae (vavae tonga: lea fakahaʻamoa)
- vavae Sāmoa (vavae pālangi)
- vavae (lea fakaniuē)
- vavai popaʻā (vavae tonga: lea fakatahisi)
- vavai (vavae pālangi)
- kīʻailana, pulupulu, pulupulu haole (vavae pālangi: lea fakahauaiʻi)
- mamaʻu, tumu mamaʻu, vavai (vavae tonga: lea fakakuki)
- vavaī, vavaī papaʻā, komiro ina (vavae pālangi)
- puatio, uruuru, uruuruvaikirita (vavae tonga: lea fakamākuise)
- uru (vavae pālangi)
- vauvau ni vavalangi (lea fakafisi)
Tataku
[fatuʻi vahe | edit source]- Hokohoko ngaahi ʻakau; Vaʻa fekumi ngoue Vainī
- Tongan dictionary; C.M. Churchward
- Multipurpose trees for agroforestry in the Pacific islands; R.R. Thaman, C.R. Elevitch, K.M. Wilkinson
- Plants of Tonga; T.G. Yuncker; BPB bulletin 220, Honolulu 1959
