noun:

• M-theory ("master theory" that unifies the five superstring theories)

noun:

• Burgess fauna (animal fossils found in the Burgess Shale)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• very much out in the open (as in a information)

noun:

• telolecithal egg (egg having the yolk situated primarily at one end) ➜ 等黄卵

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to trip someone up; to pull the carpet from under - idiom ➜ 掬う

noun:

• Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)

expression:

• laughing my ass off; LMAO; rolling on the floor laughing; ROTFL - slang ➜ ワロス

expression:

• render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's - from Matthew 22:21 - proverb

noun:

• fundamental tone in the traditional Japanese 12-tone scale (approx. D) - Music term ➜ 黄鐘【こうしょう】・十二律

noun:

• buttonwood tree (the American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis); buttonball tree ➜ アメリカ篠懸の木

noun:

• correct practices (esp. in Jodo, the path to rebirth in paradise) - Buddhism term ➜ 助業・浄土宗・正定業

expression:

• be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth - from Genesis 1:28 - proverb

noun:

• clandestine Christian (during the Tokugawa period); secret Christian

~と adverb / ~たる adjective:

• drearily; with desolation; with loneliness (esp. the rain and wind)

noun / ~する noun:

• winning one's first election; being elected for the first time

expression / ichidan verb:

• to advance to the next stage (e.g. in a tournament)

noun:

• seine fishing (usu. from the beach); dragnet fishing ➜ 地引網

noun:

• castle on a hill in the plains; flatland-mountain castle ➜ 平城【ひらじろ】・山城【やまじろ】

noun:

• geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period) - colloquialism ➜ 辰巳芸者

noun / ~する noun:

• falling due to a strong wind; being toppled by the wind

noun / ~する noun:

• standing guard; watchman

noun:

• watchman at the shogun's palaces (Edo period)

noun:

• chair seat; chair seating (as opposed to sitting on the floor)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to attack a routed enemy; to sink the boot into

noun:

• disposition to operate in the red; tendency to have chronic deficits

noun:

• jacana (esp. the pheasant-tailed jacana, Hydrophasianus chirurgus); lily-trotter