noun:

• Mendel's laws (of genetic inheritance)

adverb / expression:

• (carrying) close to one's person; next to the skin

noun:

• red and white candy stick sold at children's festivals

noun:

• Siebold's wild ginger (esp. its dried root or rhizome, used as an antitussive and analgesic in traditional Chinese medicine) ➜ 薄葉細辛

noun:

• reader's column; letters-to-the-editor column

noun:

• buyer's credit

noun:

• woman's handwriting; hiragana

noun:

• Afele's fringefin goby (Eviota afelei); Afele's pygmy goby

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make something one's own; to appropriate for oneself

noun:

• Alzheimer's disease - abbreviation ➜ アルツハイマー病【アルツハイマーびょう】

expression / ~よい adjective:

• it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ... - usu. verb-て...

ichidan verb:

• to accumulate one's unpublished paintings or writings

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to engrave in one's heart; to inscribe on one's bones [literal] - idiom

godan ~る verb:

• to force one's way through

noun:

• restoring one's impaired reputation; regaining one's honor; redeeming oneself - four character idiom

noun:

• seamen's union

expression:

• pricking up one's ears and listening; listening attentively - from the Disney movie Dumbo

noun:

• Buddhist service held on the day of Buddha's death (orig. 15th of the 2nd month, now 15th of the 3rd month)

noun / ~する noun:

• being circumscribed by one's own words and actions

expression / adjective:

• it's OK to ...; it's best to ...; it's alright to ... - usu. verb-て... ➜ 置けばいい

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• at one's sweet will; doing whatever one pleases; however one pleases

expression / adverb:

• I fear that it's likely that
• with all due respect

noun:

• pig's snout; nose resembling a pig's snout
• snorting like a pig (while laughing)

expression / ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):

• to engrave in one's heart - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• doctor's hospital rounds