藪

やぶ only

thicket; bush; grove; scrub

Abbreviation; Word usually written using kana alone

(medical) quack

out of the blue; all of a sudden; without warning; unexpectedly

From the title of a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

being a mystery (due to conflicting testimony); being unknown; in a grove

to stir up trouble for oneself; to scare out a snake by poking at the bush

bolt from the blue; unforeseen event; complete surprise

Nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

squint; cross-eyed

mistaken view

Asian stubtail (Urosphena squameiceps)

bush dog (Speothos venaticus)

Abbreviation

(medical) quack

spearflower (Ardisia japonica)

Food, cooking

yabu soba; green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff

orange daylily (Hemerocallis fulva var. kwanso); tawny daylily

big blue lilyturf (Liriope muscari); lilyturf; liriope; border grass; monkey grass

wild camellia (Camellia japonica); common camellia

erect hedge parsley (Torilis japonica); Japanese hedge parsley; upright hedge parsley

wetland with abundant vegetation

place where things are gathered

bushkiller (species of herbaceous plant, Cayratia japonica)

Japanese cinnamon (Cinnamomum japonicum)

pademelon; paddymelon

Japanese holly fern (Cyrtomium fortunei)

woven mat tied around a plant to prevent damage from the weight of snow

Yabunouchi school of tea ceremony

labyrinth; maze

hiking through dense vegetation; pushing one's way through a thicket; bushwhacking