A tree or plant from Pacific island or Aboriginal Australian contexts; a specific botanical species.
From indigenous Pacific or Australian Aboriginal languages; the exact etymology depends on the specific language source, likely Polynesian or Australian Aboriginal origin.
Words like 'awanyu' show how English botanical vocabulary is a patchwork of indigenous languages—Western science renamed plants already known by dozens of local names, erasing botanical knowledge.
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