noun:

• prickly water lily

noun:

• brute; savage; fiend

noun:

• greater bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica)

noun:

• great barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be laughable; to be unrealistic - idiom

noun:

• oceanic manta ray (Manta birostris); giant oceanic manta ray

noun:

• Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopacea)

noun:

• prickly sow-thistle (Sonchus asper); sharp-fringed sow thistle; spiny sow thistle; spiny-leaved sow thistle

expression:

• playing while the cat is away; taking a break while the boss is out; doing what one wants when one is (finally) alone; relaxing while the demon is out [literal] - idiom ➜ 洗濯

noun:

• Gelidium japonicum (species of seaweed)

noun:

• scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis cirrhosa); hairy stingfish

noun:

• wooden board used on the ridge-ends of a roof instead of an onigawara tile (sometimes covered in copper sheeting) ➜ 鬼瓦

expression / noun:

• person of strong constitution unexpectedly falling ill; sickness of a stout man; the devil getting sunstroke [literal]

noun:

• demon; monster; apparition

noun:

• wailings of a restless ghost - archaism

noun:

• crack detective

noun:

• witch's milk (milk secreted by some neonates)

noun:

• anxiety; concern; (secret) fear ［鬼胎］
• (hydatidiform) mole - esp. 奇胎 ➜ 胞状奇胎

noun:

• daredevil warrior

noun:

• Gastrodia elata (species of saprophytic orchid)

expression:

• just as even coarse tea tastes good when fresh, even homely girls look beautiful at the peak of their youth ➜ 番茶も出花

noun:

• Araneus ventricosus (species of orb-weaving spider)

noun:

• Manchurian walnut (Juglans mandshurica)

noun:

• hard shell of a nut, etc.

noun / ~する noun:

• calling someone over the phone many times - colloquialism