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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
hypothesis testing
blue admiral (species of nymphalid butterfly, Kaniska canace)
transfer ceremony (wherein a shrine's sacred object is moved from one building to another)
Zhou shaku (approx. 20 cm)
to think of as the main point
Paris syndrome (psychological problems associated with visiting or living in Paris)
ōshiki mode (one of the six main gagaku modes)
sick building syndrome