noun / ~の noun:

• the best in the land; the best of its kind in the country; par excellence in the whole country - four character idiom

noun:

• Clusiaceae; Guttiferae; family of plants including St. John's worts and mangosteens

noun:

• Malayo-Polynesian (family of languages) ➜ オーストロネシア語族

noun:

• uprooted person; free spirit; something or someone who has lost (cultural, geographical, family, etc.) roots - From French "deracine"

noun:

• megapode (any bird of family Megapodiidae, incl. brush turkeys and mallee fowl); mound builder

noun:

• Heterodontidae (family with one genus, Heterodontus, containing 9 living species of bullhead sharks)

noun:

• Stegostomatidae; family of Indo-Pacific carpet sharks containing a single species, Stegostoma fasciatum

noun:

• Pomacentridae; family containing about 360 species of primarily marine tropical damselfishes and clownfishes

noun:

• Luvaridae; family containing one extant species of perciform fish similar to a surgeonfish

noun / ~する noun:

• binding firmly; restraining; restricting; confining; entangling - obscure term
• being bound by evil desires; klesha - obscure term - Buddhism term ➜ 煩悩【ぼんのう】

noun:

• family; dependents; household - obscure term

noun:

• splitting the bill so that the others end up paying the whole amount; wheedling the others into paying the whole bill - four character idiom

noun:

• chigger; jigger; harvest mite (any mite of family Trombiculidae)

noun / ~する noun:

• legal reregistration in one's family; reenrollment (in school); reenrolment

noun:

• palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae) ➜ 椰子【やし】

noun:

• robber fly (any fly of family Asilidae)

noun:

• Liquidambar (genus in family Altingiaceae); sweetgum genus

noun / ~する noun:

• selling on the market (in the marketplace, in stores, etc.); making something commercially available

~の noun:

• commercial (e.g. software); over-the-counter; off-the-shelf; store-bought

noun:

• collecting herbs and pulling out young pine trees by the roots (annual event held on the first Day of the Rat of the New Year) - obscure term ➜ 子の日の遊び

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing for women and children (e.g. kimono, yukata) (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

expression:

• trying to straighten the horns of a bull, and killing it in the process; trying to correct a small defect and ruining the whole thing; The cure is worse than the disease - four character idiom

noun:

• the concerned government agencies; the ministries and agencies that are relevant to the matter at hand; the relevant authorities - four character idiom

noun:

• the two leading actors (in a play); the two star players; the two distinctive features; the two main items (attractions) - four character idiom

noun:

• Edo Castle (residence of the Shogun during the Edo period, now the site of the Tokyo Imperial Palace)

noun / ~する noun:

• scoring the first point; winning the first game ［せんしょう］

noun:

• lucky day in the morning, but not in the afternoon ➜ 六曜

noun:

• double slap in the face (second slap administered by the return motion of the back of the hand)