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• òriọ̀nàlocal candle [made from palm fibre after squeezing out the oil]; tinder (often made palm-branch beaten to fibre); candle; lamp
• àbùplant resembling aŋā, used for its fibres; the rope made from it
• chigod; (in general) animate, purposeful essence; procreative life- force; block
• ọbàcalabash; flat disc(made from calabash) used in garri processing, or for scooping water/wine; calabash
• òjàwooden whistle; flutes played in sets; (arch.) spheroidal ocarina made from bush-orange (Oncoba spinosa) shell used to send message in war
• olifood made from maize
• ọsò"hiss"; sound (of contempt) made by sucking teeth; kind of children’s sickness causing distension of abdomen
• ùbetowel; native pear; "pear" (Pachylobus edulis Don), baked in hot ashes; pear (Pachylobus edulis)
• àkwụbird’s nest (= anì); nest; a structure made by birds for laying eggs and sheltering their young ones
• igbēcrawling; movement, from one location to another, made on the knees, or hands and knees; crawl; crawling
• òchàwild animal whose horn is made into an òpì, a transversely blown signal horn