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Angelica keiskei (species of angelica, a herb of the parsley family)

nature; natural scenery

primrose

Siebold's primrose (Primula sieboldii); cherry blossom primrose; Japanese woodland primrose

fairy-tale book

pheasant's eye (species of buttercup, Adonis ramosa)

study of plants, minerals, and animals for use in Chinese medicine; herbalism; pharmacognosy

cigarette

to give up smoking; to stop smoking

common gypsophila (Gypsophila elegans); baby's breath; babies' breath; soaproot

forget-me-not (esp. the water forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides)

rubber thongs; rubber flip-flops

a single tree or blade of grass; every stick and stone (of a place)

liquorice; licorice

posthumous works

Common noun

floating weed

Word usually written using kana alone; Common noun

greater duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza)

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

precarious; unstable

rice gruel traditionally eaten on the 7th day of the new year containing the seven plants of spring

Roger's bronze leaf

haystack; hay bale

scouring rushes; Equisetum hyemale; common horsetail

wind-resistant blade of grass; resistant idea (metaphorically)

white clover (Trifolium repens); Dutch clover

water plant; seaweed; algae

Urtica thunbergiana (species of stinging nettle)

chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata)