noun:

• whitecheek surgeonfish (Acanthurus nigricans, species of tang from the Eastern Indian and Pacific Oceans)

ichidan verb:

• to throw up (in the air)

noun:

• former Christian missionary who apostatized and converted to Buddhism (during the Edo period) ➜ バテレン

noun:

• Kuninotokotachi no Mikoto (eternal god of the land)

noun:

• draft of a magazine's content (usu. a table showing the allocation of each page)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to panic (from the flu panics of late 2000's and early 2010's); to act frantically; to act bizarrely - slang ➜ タミフル

noun:

• virgin (esp. the Virgin Mary) - From Portuguese "virgem"

noun:

• rice-bran bag (used for scrubbing the skin when bathing) ➜ 糠袋

noun:

• plasmodium (form within the life cycle of myxomycete slime molds)

expression:

• decreasing (graph falling to the right); shrinking; declining

noun:

• euphonic change of unvoiced to voiced sound (on the first consonant of the non-initial mora of a compound)

auxiliary verb:

• indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense
• indicates continuation from the past to the present
• end; conclusion - also written with the ateji 鳧

noun:

• extinction of contamination (one of the six supernormal Buddhist powers) - Buddhism term ➜ 六神通

noun:

• Trapa incisa (species of plant closely related to the water caltrop)

noun:

• night shark (Carcharhinus signatus, species of nocturnally active requiem shark found in the Atlantic Ocean)

noun:

• cementum (hard connective tissue covering the tooth root); cement

noun:

• Panthera (genus of the cat family Felidae containing tigers, lions, jaguars, and leopards)

noun:

• Zebrasoma (genus of 7 species of marine tang in the family Acanthuridae with pointed snouts and forward facing spines at the base of the tail) ➜ ヒレナガハギ属【ヒレナガハギぞく】

noun:

• entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen) - archaism

noun:

• Anabantoidei (suborder of the order Perciformes known as labyrinth fish that are defined by having an accessory breathing organ for respiration in air)

noun:

• Onokoro Island (in Japanese mythology, the island formed by drops of water falling from the heavenly jeweled spear); Onogoro Island - archaism ➜ 天の瓊矛
• Japan

noun:

• year in which an imperial memorial ceremony is held (the 3rd, 5th, 10th 20th, 50th & 100th years after death and every 100 years thereafter) ➜ 式年祭

noun:

• compound ideograph (one of the six kanji classifications); kanji made up of meaningful parts (e.g. "mountain pass" is up + down + mountain)

noun:

• turban shell (any mollusc of the family Turbinidae, esp. the horned turban, Turbo cornutus)

noun:

• second part (of three); second volume; middle part ➜ 前編・上編
• novelette; novella; short novel; long short story; medium-length story - abbreviation ➜ 中編小説【ちゅうへんしょうせつ】・短編・長編