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liliacea (Cordyline fruticosa); its long, thick root, cooked in the earth oven, is deliciously sweet.

to bend down to allow someone to climb on one's back to be carried (haha); he-ti-atu a Kaiga i te tua ivi, he-haha-mai Huri Avai, Kaiga bent his back and Huri Avai climbed on his shoulders.