noun:

• CAM plant (any plant, such as the pineapple, that uses crassulacean acid metabolism)

noun:

• Japanese huchen (Hucho perryi) (salmonoid fish found in Hokkaido that grows up to 1.5 meters)

noun:

• gift received from a visitor (usu. used when offering the visitor to partake of part of that gift) - honorific language ➜ お持たせ

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to win every battle (that is fought); to be ever victorious - obscure term

noun:

• advance payment on behalf of a third party (with expectation that it will be reimbursed)

noun:

• bare midriff (clothing style that exposes one's midriff)

expression / adjective:

• (so ashamed or embarrassed that) one does not know where to put oneself; feeling out of place

noun:

• vijnapti-matrata (theory that all existence is subjective and nothing exists outside of the mind) - Buddhism term

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to think deep down (that); to tell oneself (that); to secretly believe (that)

noun:

• the three worms (in Taoism, worms that inhabit the human gut and, on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle, ascend to heaven during one's sleep to report on one's wrongdoings) ➜ 庚申待

noun:

• morganatic marriage (marriage of a noble and a commoner that disallows the passage of title, possessions, etc.)

noun:

• Azuma-asobi (ancient Japanese dance suite that originated in eastern Japan) - archaism

noun:

• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship)

prefix noun:

• certain; unnamed; undisclosed; unidentified

noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution)

noun / ~の noun:

• catarrhine (primate of infraorder Catarrhini having nostrils that are close together, esp. the Old World monkeys of family Cercopithecidae) ➜ 広鼻猿類

noun:

• hangover (that still lingers two days after drinking) - colloquialism ➜ 二日酔い

noun:

• Streptococcus pyogenes (bacterium that causes group A streptococcal infections)

noun:

• White Army (any of the armies that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution) ➜ 白衛軍

noun:

• ekayana (doctrine that only one teaching, usu. the Lotus Sutra, can lead to enlightenment) - Buddhism term

noun:

• four-color theorem (colour) (theorem stating that any map can be colored such that no two adjacent segments have the same color, if only four colors are used)

noun:

• feeble anger (that one cannot act on because one is powerless); the clenching teeth of a dried sardine [literal] - idiom

noun:

• link to (a site, as used in page ranking that site)

noun:

• phonetic table (esp. that of Japanese) ➜ 五十音図

expression:

• zombie businesses (firms that would have failed but for government intervention)

noun:

• word to soften awkward topics (esp. refusal in business conversation, e.g. "I am afraid that ...") - e.g. 申し訳ありませんが、あいにく ➜ クッションワード