noun:

• bronze currency of ancient China (some pieces shaped like spades and others like opened straight razors)

noun:

• pika (rabbit-like animal of family Ochotonidae)

expression:

• intense antipathy (like a blazing fire); flames of rage

noun:

• comb jellies (jellyfish-like animals of the phylum Ctenophora) ➜ 有櫛動物

noun:

• Solenogastres (subclass of small worm-like molluscs)

noun:

• rough skin (like that of a shark)

expression:

• dogs and monkeys (esp. as an example of a bad relationship, like that between cats and dogs) ➜ 犬猿

noun:

• quasi-negation (e.g. use of words like 'hardly', 'seldom', 'barely'); weak negation - obscure term - Linguistics term

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• crisp (like a pickle); crunchy - onomatopoeia
• firm (musculature) - onomatopoeia
• stiff (shoulders, neck, etc.) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• kanji "jewel" radical at left (looks like "king") (radical 96) ➜ 玉偏

noun:

• lucky-number request (the person who is the Nth visitor to a web site gets to make a request, e.g. for a custom drawing, where N is a special number like 10000) - from キリ番 and リクエスト - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ キリ番・リクエスト

noun:

• milonga (tango-like dance)
• place where the milonga and tango is danced

noun:

• symphylan (any centipede-like arthropod of class Symphyla)

~と adverb:

• gently and clearly shining (like the sun in springtime) - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Japanese zelkova (species of elm-like tree, Zelkowa serrata)

~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• spine-chilling (hair-raising) (like the wailing and weeping of a restless ghost) - archaism - four character idiom

noun:

• grosgrain (silk or silk-like fabric) - From French "gros-grain"

expression:

• parents may risk life and limb for their children (like a pheasant when the plains are burning or a crane on a cold night) - obscure term

noun:

• Manneken Pis (cupid-like statue urinating into a fountain); Petit Julien

noun:

• spray of snow (smoke-like)

noun:

• francolin (partridge-like bird of genus Francolinus)
• partridge (of genus Perdix) - archaism ➜ 山鶉

noun:

• body set on fire from head to foot (like a daruma doll being ritually incinerated)

noun:

• oud (lute-like instrument of Arabic origin) - From Arabic "ud"

noun:

• paper doll to which children pray for fine weather (usu. white, and shaped like a Buddhist priest)

expression:

• risky thing to do (like feeding a fox) - idiom ➜ 猫に鰹節