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(UN) Security Council

going to Russia

Neoharriotta (genus of long-nosed chimaeras)

winter solstitial point

waterweed (any aquatic plant of genus Elodea, esp. common waterweed, Elodea canadensis)

Harbin pear (Pyrus ussuriensis var. hondoensis)

Treaty of San Stefano (ending the Russo-Turkish War, 1878)

(police) dragnet

the two solstices (summer and winter)

small calibre

poor argument

oxidation number

alternating stress

children born of multiple birth (e.g. twins, triplets, etc.)

edible chrysanthemum

apparent magnitude

lava dome

Artemisia (genus of plants containing mugworts, wormwoods, etc.)

computed tomography

firm tofu

Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis)

accessory before the fact

anniversary that celebrates author Dazai Osamu's birthday, and incidentally, the day his body was found after he was involved in a double suicide

to slip through the dragnet

prototype kilogram

pivot hinge (using extensions on the top and bottom of a door that fit into cavities in the frame)

musket (male Japanese sparrowhawk)

pressurizer

to bring up a subject

justifiable cause for noncompliance with the law