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Aboriginal languages (of Australia)

Japanese Black (breed of cattle)

Sekimon Shingaku

Eurasian golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria)

Japanese Black (breed of cattle)

confusing song or poem (esp. used derogatorily to describe a style of middle-age Japanese poetry popularized by Fujiwara no Teika)

chickweed (stitchwort) roasted and mixed with salt, then ground into a powder for use as toothpaste

crown of a buddha's head

rainforest

American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica)

Wernicke's area

octagon

carpal (bone)

cow hide tanned using tannin

bad things happen to those who attempt things

archicortex

Mendel's laws (of genetic inheritance)

phalanx

taiji (in Chinese philosophy, the principle that embodies all potential things, incl. time and space)

knitted hat

strips of daikon sliced the long way and dried

racketeering by interceding in civil disputes and threatening the use of violence

phospholipid

great impropriety (esp. towards the imperial family)

thinly sliced and dried strips of daikon

Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)

Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambusoides)

sinistral fault

to keep in contact (e.g. by phone, mail, etc.)