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five ranks of nobility (in Japan; 1869-1947)

Japanese seven-tone gagaku scale (corresponding to: so, la, ti, do, re, mi, fa), similar to Mixolydian mode

phylogeny

apologetics

wives and tatami mats are best when new

chytridiomycosis (fatal infectious disease of amphibians)

inconspicuous

damage caused by harmful rumours or misinformation (rumors)

four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)

point mutation

phosphorescent lights seen at sea at night

former public prosecutor who now works as a lawyer

sugar palm (Arenga pinnata)

advice column

(in Japan) 10th note of the ancient chromatic scale (approx. B)

having a high threshold (for entry)

being out of consideration

miyako-bushi scale (characteristic Japanese hemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, fa, la, ti, do)

pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)

germ cell

broad-minded

Ritsu (school of Buddhism)

xenophobia

Turner's syndrome

hemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing semitones)

distantly related

folk scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, so, la, ti, re)

mother nucleus

fundamental tone in the traditional Japanese 12-tone scale (approx. D)

Huntington's chorea