noun:

• fan mussel (species of pen shell, Atrina pectinata)

noun:

• Sanmonto sect (of Shin Buddhism) - Buddhism term ➜ 真宗【しんしゅう】

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:

• frame (of a building); framework; skeleton
• (human) body

noun:

• Inversidens brandti (species of freshwater mussel)

noun:

• first character (of a dictionary entry)

noun:

• fenestra rotunda (of the ear)

noun:

• fly agaric (species of poisonous mushroom, Amanita muscaria)

noun:

• rice polishing (removing the shell of brown rice to leave white rice)

noun:

• king (of the junior player) - Shōgi term

noun:

• spookfish (Hydrolagus mitsukurii, species of cartilaginous fish from the Northwest Pacific)

noun:

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

noun:

• supporter (e.g. of the arts); adherent; proponent

noun:

• colophon (at the end of a book); imprint; publication information

noun:

• Taeniophyllum glandulosum (species of orchid)

expression / noun:

• bark (of tree)

noun:

• Sinictinogomphus clavatus (species of clubtail dragonfly)

noun:

• dip (of the compass)

noun:

• aperture ratio (inverse of the f-number); relative aperture ➜ Ｆナンバー

noun:

• Hirudo nipponia (species of blood-sucking leech)

noun:

• hairstreak (any gossamer-winged butterfly of tribe Theclini) - From Latin "Zephyrus"

noun:

• Acanthodes (member of an extinct genus of spiny shark) - From Latin

noun:

• Sorbus matsumurana (species of rowan)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lead (a) life (usu. preceded by the type of life)

noun:

• toadfish (any fish of family Batrachoididae, esp. the Pacuma toadfish, Batrachoides surinamensis)