noun:

• whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus, species of Indo-Pacific requiem shark)

noun:

• Nasolamia (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae whose only member is the whitenose shark)

noun:

• blogosphere (the world of blogs and bloggers)

~の noun:

• droopy (e.g. of skin); drooping - colloquialism

noun:

• Yucca smalliana (species of yucca)

noun / ~する noun:

• head (of cabbage, etc.)

expression:

• "Revere heaven, love people." (favorite motto of Saigo Takamori, 1827-1877) - four character idiom

noun:

• Coreoperca herzi (species of temperate perch)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to speak (of something)
• to be effective; to be powerful; to mean everything

noun:

• Hozukius emblemarius (species of fish closely related to the rockfish)

noun:

• kapok tree (species of silk-cotton tree, Ceiba pentandra)

noun / ~する noun:

• moving forward by sliding on one's knees (in the presence of high-ranking individuals)

noun:

• Acanthopanax sciadophylloides (species of flowering plant related to the aralias)

noun:

• Peripatetic school (of philosophy) ➜ 逍遥学派

noun:

• black-tailed godwit (species of sandpiper, Limosa limosa)

noun:

• culm (hollow stem of a grass)

noun / ~の noun:

• acute (of the shape of a leaf); acuminate; pointed ➜ 鈍頭

noun / ~する noun:

• raising the level (of); boosting; improving; improvement; rising to the next level - From English "level up"

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to buy all (of something) one can get one's hands on; to buy up; to scoop up

godan ~る verb:

• to lose population (e.g. of active forum members, etc.) - slang - IT term

noun:

• broad-pointed (of writing instruments)

noun:

• Hypselodoris festiva (species of sea slug)

noun:

• neutral theory (of molecular evolution)

noun:

• dharmakaya (dharma body, Buddhism's highest form of existence) - Buddhism term ➜ 三身

noun / ~する noun:

• postal privatisation (privatisation of Japan Post)