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Proverb

best is Fuji, second is a hawk, third is an eggplant (of auspicious things to see in a dream, esp. one's first dream of the year)

dead child

hemp yarn or linen thread woven into a coarse cloth used for mosquito nets, summer clothes, etc.

mud pie

seed ball ("nature farming" technique)

Word usually written using kana alone

deer truffle (Elaphomyces granulatus); false truffle

rung of a ladder

atomic physics; nuclear physics

tanuki drumming on their stomachs

Colloquial

man who makes his own lunch to take to work

Music

electric organ

Geology

glacial erratic; erratic boulder

Astronomy

molecular cloud

latticework

Resp. when other party is equivocating, such as saying しかし

stop complaining; stop making excuses

coconut palm (Cocos nucifera)

deep-fried Chinese pastry (sweetened with jiaogulan)

genetically-modified crop; genetically-engineered crop; transgenic crop; GM crop

Includes both 子芋 and 孫芋

minor taro root; taro cormlet; taro cormel

Colloquial; As 芋の子を洗うよう, etc.

(pool, etc.) being jam-packed with people

var. of eggplant (Solanum melongena) which can be eaten raw

pickled (in rice bran or vinegar) (whole) eggplant

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu; Dao De Jing by Laozi

indicator; specifier; designator

Kamo eggplant (Solanum melongena; round variety originally grown in Kyoto)

clave-like folk instrument; two bamboo pieces beaten together

small eggplant

Word usually written using kana alone

Japanese yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia japonica)

illegitimate child