Oozing thick sap from a tree; a protoplastic secretion of ripe sweet potato tubers, lapnay, which forms on the skin surface when roasted.
There are at least three kinds of useful oozing sap: 1) Resinous sap, libu, from a buyū'an or ulittāgu tree, is used to glaze clay pots, bānga, or repair cracks in a water pot, pannūman. 2) Oozing sap from a būlon tree. This sap is amber in color. The tree is slashed, to'to' 2. Sap oozes out and must be used immediately, as it hardens in about an hour. Painted on rain hats, ledaw, to waterproof them; also painted on the handle covering, allūbung, of bolos and spears to preserve the rattan weave. 3) Sap from a pagal'iw, puhpuh or toba' tree is used on a sticky-perch trap, pū'ot, to catch birds and dragonflies.
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