梅

pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping)

From 松 down to 梅

high, middle and low (ranking); top, middle and bottom; upper, medium, lower; first, second and third (class)

(unusually) dry rainy season

crunchy pickled plum

old plum tree

plum tree which blossoms in winter; early-flowering plum tree; early plum blossoms

wild Japanese apricot

early-blooming plum

wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice

winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum)

fallen ume blossoms; fallen ume fruit

Bungo Japanese apricot; Prunus mume var. bungo

Japanese buckthorn (Rhamnus japonica var. decipiens)

plum-blossom viewing

cerebral syphilis

wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice

fish skin with a granular texture, esp. shark and stingray

rough ceramic glaze (like sharkskin); rough enamel

Organization name

Shiraume Student Nurse Corps (Okinawa, 1945)

Food, cooking

kōbaiyaki (senbei punched into shapes, e.g. plum)

Celastrus orbiculatus

winter plum tree with reddish blossoms

Medicine

neurosyphilis

pincushion plant (Diapensia lapponica)

winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum)

Abbreviation

Trollius hondoensis (species of globeflower)

sorbaria