OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 246

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•  a tree, the bark is put in the bath water of newly born children(eng).een boom, de schors wordt in het waschwater van pasgeboren kinderen gedaan(nld).

Scientific name: Hernandia sonora L.

Note: In Miquel and Filet it is wrongly called asso and bifi mafalla.