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don't feed autumn eggplant to your wife (because they're too delicious, because they'll give her the chills, or because their lack of seeds will reduce her fertility)

X-ray (photography)

government-managed health insurance

Sumatra-Andaman earthquake (2004, resulting in the Indian Ocean tsunami)

tongue worm (any worm of phylum Pentastomida)

Nandikesvara (Ganesh in the Buddhist pantheon)

hemichordate (any worm of phylum Hemichordata)

voir dire (hearing to determine the admissibility of evidence, or the competency of a witness or juror)

flat-topped burial mound

auspicious bird (e.g. crane, Chinese phoenix, Vermilion Bird)

pentastomid (any worm of phylum Pentastomida)

seashore false bindweed (Calystegia soldanella)

eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology)

to marry (of a woman)

the five skandhas (matter, sensation, perception, mental formations and consciousness)

small water spring

midsummer greetings

Monoplacophora (polyphyletic class of mollusks)

Festival of Emperor Jimmu (formerly held annually on April 3, the supposed day of his death)

excipient (inactive ingredient added to a drug)

five dhyani buddhas

undisputedly

kanji reading and meaning

Aryavalokitesvara (manifestation of Avalokitesvara)

forged card (e.g. cash card, credit card)

old gentleman

regular election (triennial election of half of the House of Councillors)

my

Zen stick (used by a Zen priest to strike an inattentive zazen sitter)

Michelia compressa (species of Japanese tree similar to champak)